{"id":363523,"date":"2011-04-03T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/03\/team-news-tevez-balotelli-and-adam-johnson-return-to-manchester-city-starting-line-up-against-sunderland\/"},"modified":"2011-04-03T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T14:12:00","slug":"team-news-tevez-balotelli-and-adam-johnson-return-to-manchester-city-starting-line-up-against-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/03\/team-news-tevez-balotelli-and-adam-johnson-return-to-manchester-city-starting-line-up-against-sunderland\/","title":{"rendered":"TEAM NEWS: Tevez, Balotelli and Adam Johnson return to Manchester City starting line-up against Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Laurie Bonne<\/h3>\n<h4>3 Apr 2011 15:12:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"69.058039961941\">\n<div readability=\"14.545454545455\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"    Mario Balotelli - Manchester City (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1563fb19126486_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>    Mario Balotelli &#8211; Manchester City (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"40\"><\/p>\n<p>Manchester City faces Sunderland on a winning spell in a bid to close the gap on Chelsea who are in third place with two points more.<\/p>\n<p>City boss Roberto Mancini has called for\u00a0 Carlos Tevez and Balotelli back at the head of the offensive line to take on Sunderland&#8217;s back five while Edin Dzeko starts on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Cats will count on Asamoah Gyan and Danny Welbeck to try and net the ball to pick up all three points and be propelled into eight place just behind Everton on goal average.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the line-up in full: <br \/><strong><br \/>City<\/strong>: Hart; Boyata, Kompany, Lescott, Kolarov, Y Toure, De Jong, Johnson, Silva, Tevez, Balotelli.<br \/><strong>Subs<\/strong>: Taylor, McGivern, Barry, Viera, Milner, Wright-Philips, Dzeko<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunderland<\/strong>: Mignolet; Bardsley, Turner, Mensah, Ferdinand; Sessegnon, Cattermole, Henderson, Muntari, Welbeck; Gyan<br \/><strong>subs<\/strong>: Gordon, Zenden, Malbranque, Colback, Al Muhammadi, Adams, Lynch        <\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1563fb19126486_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/04\/03\/2424312\/team-news-tevez-balotelli-and-adam-johnson-return-to\" title=\"TEAM NEWS: Tevez, Balotelli and Adam Johnson return to Manchester City starting line-up against Sunderland\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TEAM NEWS: Tevez, Balotelli and Adam Johnson return to Manchester City starting line-up against Sunderland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Laurie Bonne 3 Apr 2011 15:12:00 Mario Balotelli &#8211; Manchester City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Manchester City faces Sunderland on a winning spell in a bid to close the gap on Chelsea who are in third place with two points more. City boss Roberto Mancini has called for\u00a0 Carlos Tevez and Balotelli back at the head of the offensive line to take on Sunderland&#8217;s back five while Edin Dzeko starts on the bench. The Black Cats will count on Asamoah Gyan and Danny Welbeck to try and net the ball to pick up all three points and be propelled into eight place just behind Everton on goal average<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TEAM NEWS: Tevez, Balotelli and Adam Johnson return to Manchester City starting line-up against Sunderland - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/03\/team-news-tevez-balotelli-and-adam-johnson-return-to-manchester-city-starting-line-up-against-sunderland\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"TEAM NEWS: Tevez, Balotelli and Adam Johnson return to Manchester City starting line-up against Sunderland - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Laurie Bonne 3 Apr 2011 15:12:00 Mario Balotelli - Manchester City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Manchester City faces Sunderland on a winning spell in a bid to close the gap on Chelsea who are in third place with two points more. 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