Southampton's Tino Livramento, Alex McCarthy and Will Smallbone remain out injured.
Moussa Djenepo is at the Africa Cup of Nations but Mohamed Elyounoussi and Theo Walcott are in contention again after isolating due to Covid-19.
Manchester City await news on whether Nathan Ake, Cole Palmer and Oleksandr Zinchenko will be fit.
Riyad Mahrez could be available after Algeria were eliminated from the Africa Cup of Nations.
LAWRO'S PREDICTION
Southampton played really well when they came to Etihad Stadium in September. They got a point and were unlucky not to get all three.
But this Manchester City team is a different beast now compared with the way they were playing four months ago.