EPL: City set to reclaim top spot 

Manchester City could temporarily move back to the top of the Premier League table this weekend when they welcome Everton to the Etihad Stadium today at lunchtime.
The champions were knocked off the summit by Liverpool last weekend, but face an Everton side with just one win from their last five league outings.
It will be an unfamiliar feeling for Man City to go into this weekend chasing another team in the Premier League table, and Pep Guardiola will be looking for a response from his side.
The defending champions had been overwhelming favourites to retain their crown despite the form of Liverpool alongside them, but last weekend’s defeat to Chelsea – their first of the season and only their third in their last 62 Premier League outings – went some way to damaging their air of invincibility.
As Guardiola said himself, though, the ultimate aim is not to be Invincibles, but rather to be champions and a defeat at Stamford Bridge certainly does not change City’s status as one of English football’s all-time great teams.
How they respond to such a setback is a rare test Guardiola gets to observe, and the initial signs have been promising with victory over Hoffenheim in the Champions League in midweek.
City must be regarded among the favourites to go all the way and lift that trophy – as they remain in the Premier League and the EFL Cup, the quarter-final of which arrives on Tuesday against Leicester City.
It is two years since Man City last lost successive league matches, while they have never failed to score in back-to-back top-flight outings under Guardiola.
The title-holders have also won their last eight home games across all competitions and are yet to drop a single point at the Etihad Stadium in the league this season, boasting a perfect record of eight wins from eight and scoring 30 goals in the process – 11 more than the next highest scorers at home have managed this term.
Everton face a daunting task, then, and perhaps one of the most impressive aspects of City’s incredible standards in recent years is their ability to pick up wins when they are expected.
Defeats to top-six rivals such as Chelsea last weekend can be damaging, but it is now 51 matches since City last lost against a team outside of that ‘big six’ – although that did come at the hands of Everton almost two years ago.

Man City possible XI: Ederson, Walker, Otamendi, Laporte, Delph, Bernardo, Fernandinho, Gundogan, Sterling, Aguero, Sane.
Everton possible XI: Pickford, Coleman, Keane, Mina, Digne, Gomes, Gueye, Walcott, Sigurdsson, Bernard, Richarlison.