TEAM NEWS: John Stones replace injured Laporte as Man City look to close FIVE point GAP

Manchester City looks to close the additional three points gap extended by Liverpool after their win against Newcastle United in the early kick off.

Four enforced changes has been made by Daniel Farke but amazingly that's looking a good number given he cast doubt over 10 of them yesterday. Max Aarons, Christoph Zimmermann, Tom Trybull and Moritz Leitner are all missing for the visit of Man City.

In come Sam Byram, Ibrahim Amadou, Kenny McLean and Alexander Tettey to add to their ranks, although the doubts over Tim Krul clearly still stand with both Ralph Fahrmann and Michael McGovern on the bench.

Laporte is missing with injury as we knew but the only other change comes in attack, with Riyad Mahrez dropped and Bernardo Silva returning on the right flank.

In defence John Stones is the man who gets the nod to join Nicholas Otamendi. He was probably suspecting it, as Manchester City are now down to their last two centre-backs.

Norwich: Krul, Byram, Godfrey, Amadou, Lewis, Cantwell, McLean, Buendia, Stiepermann, Tettey, Pukki.

Subs: Fahrmann, McGovern, Hanley, Heise, Srbeny, Idah, Drmic.

Man City: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Otamendi, Zinchenko, Rodrigo, D Silva, Gundogan, B Silva, Aguero, Sterling.

Subs: Bravo, Cancelo, Foden, Fernandinho, Mahrez, De Bruyne, Jesus.