Barclays Premier League
Venue: Etihad Stadium Date: Saturday, 18 January 2014
Match Links: http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?...53&part=sports
TEAM NEWS
Manchester City's Vincent Kompany, Yaya Toure and David Silva are fit to face Cardiff despite missing the midweek FA Cup victory against Blackburn.
Sergio Aguero scored on his return from a calf injury in that tie, but fellow forward Stevan Jovetic remains absent.
Cardiff are without injured pair Andrew Taylor and Jordon Mutch.
Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer must decide whether to give first starts to new signings Magnus Wolff Eikrem and Mats Moller Daehli.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
Cardiff were 3-2 winners in the first top-flight meeting between the two clubs for 51 years last August.
Manchester City have never played Cardiff at the Etihad Stadium, but were unbeaten at Maine Road in seven league and cup matches between 1963 and 1985.
Manchester City
City are vying to register seven consecutive league wins for the first time since August 2012, when success against Southampton on the opening day extended a run of six straight victories at the end of the previous campaign.
It is two months since City lost a league game, away to Sunderland.
City have scored 99 goals in all competitions this season.
Manuel Pellegrini's side have scored almost four times as many goals (59) as Cardiff (15) in the Premier League.
They have scored a league-high five last-minute goals this season.
Cardiff City
Cardiff have only taken one point from their last five games (D1, L4)
Defeat for the Bluebirds would extend their winless run to six games - the first time they have endured such a sequence since March 2008.
Only Crystal Palace have failed to score on as many occasions as Cardiff City (11) this season.
Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer never won against City in four attempts as a player with Manchester United, although he did score once (D2, L2)