Team news
Wolverhampton Wanderers forward Hwang Hee-chan misses out after injuring his ankle playing for South Korea.
Enso Gonzalez, Sasa Kalajdzic, Yerson Mosquera and Boubacar Traore are still on the sidelines.
Manchester City are definitely without Kevin De Bruyne, while Nathan Ake remains a doubt.
Rodri and Oscar Bobb are long-term injury absentees.
Match facts
Head-to-head
Manchester City have won seven of the past eight league meetings, scoring a total of 25 goals in those games. Their only defeat during that period was by 2-1 at Molineux last season.
Wolves are aiming to win consecutive home league games against City for the first time since a run of three between 1982 and 1996.
City have dropped points in three of their six Premier League visits to Molineux.
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wolves have failed to win any of their opening seven league games for the first time since the 2004-05 Championship season.
One point from seven matches is their joint-lowest tally at this stage of a season, along with 1926-27 and 1964-65.
They are looking to avoid six consecutive defeats in all competitions for the first time since February to March 2017 under Paul Lambert.
Wolves are aiming to avoid losing their opening four home games to a season for the first time.
Their only win in the past 17 league fixtures was 2-1 against Luton on 27 April.
Gary O'Neil's side have conceded a league-high 21 goals this season.
They have not kept a clean sheet for 17 league matches since beating Sheffield United on 25 February.
The eight goals they have conceded from set-pieces this season is twice as many as any other top-flight club.
O'Neil could become the first English manager to record multiple Premier League wins against Pep Guardiola.
Manchester City
Manchester City could set a club record of 31 league games without defeat. Only on six occasions in English top-flight history has a side gone more than 30 matches without losing, most recently Liverpool’s run of 44 games from January 2019 to February 2020.
City have gone behind in four of their past six top-flight fixtures but they have recovered a league-high 10 points from losing positions this season.
They have avoided defeat in the last 11 league matches in which they’ve trailed (W9, D2), the joint-longest run in the Premier League history along with Arsenal in October 2004.
Pep Guardiola’s side have failed to keep a clean sheet in six league games since their 2-0 win at Chelsea on the opening weekend.
Their tally of 21 top-flight goals from outside the penalty area since the start of last season is nine more than any other side.
Erling Haaland has scored eight goals in just four league appearances against Wolves, averaging one every 40 minutes. Only one of those goals has come at Molineux.
None of City's last five league goals has been scored by Haaland - he had previously netted eight successive goals for the reigning champions.
