Hello and welcome to live coverage of Manchester City v West Ham.

A cross from the left almost meets Antonio straining at the near post, but Ederson claims. He launches a quick counter down the left for Sane, meaning Rice decides to clatter into him. Yellow card.

Sterling floats a crosss to Aguero, and the ball is eventuallly worked to Sane on the left. Rice rushes across to put it behind, and Silva's cross is headed out at the near post.

Obiang blocks a De Bruyne cross. Throw on the right for City. Walker drives towards the box but his pass inside is intercepted.

Silva tries to measure a pass for Sane's run towards the six-yard box, but it's just too strong and Adrian can collect.

Adrian is taking his sweet time taking a goal kick. Perhaps Pep will run on and scream at him at the end of the match?

West Ham haven't been too stretched so far, but they have been pressed back in their own half for much of the opening 10 minutes.

Antonio wins a corner on the right wing from Danilo. The players pack the box. Cresswell whips in a cross, Kouyate flicks it on to the back post and Antonio stretches out to send a shot wide.

The ball goes into the other half! West Ham give away a throw-in 0.3 yards over the line.

Zabaleta rushes out to concede a corner on the right wing. Silva takes, it drops to the near post, and Mangala is ruled to have bundled it behind. The replay from Sterling's earlier dive suggests that the dive was a dive.

West Ham will find out what the other half looks like at some point.

Masuaku heads behind at the back post and concedes a corner on the right wing. De Bruyne takes low and short, Sterling runs into the box and falls to the ground, appealling for a penalty.

The match gets underway, and West Ham have succesfully defended the opening seconds.

#Zabs is back.

With 10 minutes to go, let me look at the league table. Right, I've looked at the league table and it appears if my maths are right that Man City can go eight points clear if they can beat West Ham today.

This seems to be all anyone is discussing today.

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City have Mangala for his first league start under Pep Guardiola. He has been, in truth, awful for most of his City games, but he won't have been a bad player when he arrived. Give him a chance after his time away on loan, and perhaps there is a player there.

Pep Guardiola should be watching this from the stands, if the rules of football are to be enforced consistently. But, let's be honest. One, running onto the pitch after the whistle to yell encouragement at another player isn't exactly the right thing to do, and it smacks of hubris, but it doesn't deserve a ban, if we consider it away from what the rules are. And, if we consider whether the FA and Premier League ever use consistency? No, they never do, but there you go.

Poor David. West Ham manager David Moyes has to do without Joe Hart - on loan from Manchester City, Steven Reid (crocked), and drops Marko Arnautovic to the bench after he left their last game injured. He comes up againsts perhaps the best team and manager in the world right now.

TEAMS: Man City: Ederson, Walker, Otamendi, Mangala, Danilo, Delph, De Bruyne, Silva, Sterling, Sane, Aguero. Subs: Bravo, Yaya Toure, Gundogan, Fernandinho, Bernardo, Jesus, Kompany. /// West Ham: Adrian, Zabaleta, Rice, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Fernandes, Kouyate, Obiang, Masuaku, Lanzini, Antonio. Subs: Trott, Johnson, Quina, Arnautovic, Ayew, Martinez, Sakho.