Team news
Pep Guardiola revealed Raheem Sterling is fit to play, but Aymeric Laporte and Nathan Ake remain sidelined.
Sergio Aguero and Eric Garcia are self-isolating.
Tariq Lamptey, Danny Welbeck, Adam Lallana and Aaron Connolly will miss the match and Yves Bissouma is suspended.
Did you know?
Manchester City have won all six of their Premier League matches against Brighton & Hove Albion, scoring 20 goals and conceding only twice.
Since the start of 2016/17, Kevin De Bruyne has both scored and assisted in 14 PL matches, more than any other Man City player in that time. Only Lionel Messi has scored and assisted in more top-flight matches under Pep Guardiola, with 29.
Brighton have never won an away league match against Man City in 10 previous attempts (D2 L8), losing their last six visits in a row between 1983 and 2019.
Brighton head coach Graham Potter has a Premier League win ratio of just 20 per cent, the sixth-lowest of any manager to take charge of at least 50 matches and third-lowest among Englishmen, ahead only of Phil Brown (19.4) and Dave Bassett (19.7).
Match officials
Referee: Darren England. Assistants: Stuart Burt, Simon Bennett. Fourth official: Michael Oliver. VAR: Mike Dean. Assistant VAR: Dan Robathan.