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Manchester City will overtake leaders Arsenal if they manage to beat Fulham at Craven Cottage in today's Premier League lunchtime opener.

Pep Guardiola's side begin the afternoon a single point and one place behind Arsenal, who play at Manchester United tomorrow afternoon. However, reigning champions Manchester City still have a game in hand against Arsenal, who visit Tottenham Hotspur away on Tuesday evening. Guardiola has no new injury worries to worry about.

“No worries about injuries. Everyone is fine,” said the Spaniard in his pre-match press conference on Friday. “I don’t know what other clubs do, but we have had an incredible medical department here for many years.

“Doing the same thing might be the opposite, but we were also lucky last season that we had few injuries.”

Marco Silva prepared his Fulham players to face a team “like no other team in the world” when they host City.

Fulham, in 13th place, have enjoyed another solid campaign in their second season since promotion to the top flight, improving their record against the division's top teams.

Last season, despite finishing 10th, they recorded just four wins against teams ranked above them and none at all against teams in the top five.

With eight wins so far, including at home against Arsenal and Tottenham, away at Manchester United and a league double against West Ham, this season has been more successful against higher placed teams.

“Last season, even in this great season of our own, I was often asked – and probably rightly so – whether we were good against the teams below us [in the league]said Silva.

“We only won one against the teams above us, we hadn’t won against the top teams and so on. I think this season we made some progress in that regard, we were really difficult to play against.

“We were there last season, but we didn’t achieve the results. This season has been different, we have had some great results with some great performances against the top teams in this Premier League.

“And it’s a big challenge again because [Manchester City[ is a team that demands many, many things from you, it’s a team that probably like no other team in the world has the capacity to have the ball and to keep the possession and frustrate the opposition side with the possession that they have.”

Silva’s team were thrashed 5-1 by City when the teams met at the Etihad Stadium in September but competed well in the first half and were unfortunate to trail 2-1 at the break, falling behind to a Nathan Ake goal in the fifth minute of added time.

City overpowered them after the interval with Erling Haaland scoring a second-half hat-trick, but have recovered to put in strong showings against teams in the top half of the table.

And having run the champions close in a narrow 2-1 defeat at Craven Cottage last season, Silva called for his side to be similarly competitive on Saturday.

“They are the champions, they want to be champions again and are in a big fight with Arsenal to achieve it,” he said.

“Great season for both sides, but it’s not for us to talk about that race. We talk about ourselves and we are going to fight for the result and prepare ourselves for it.

“Last season at the Cottage was a really good game from ourselves, but unfortunately we haven’t got what we probably deserved in that game. That’s all it is. Let’s try to improve for the next one.”

Team news to follow shortly.