📏 Form Guide

Manchester City

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Manchester City will play in this match following a 0-0 Premier League draw versus Arsenal.

In that game, Manchester City managed 72% possession and 12 shots at goal with 1 on target. For their opponents, Arsenal had 6 shots at goal with 2 on target.

Fixtures featuring Manchester City have proved to be entertaining encounters of late with a lot of goalmouth action expected. Over their past half dozen games, the sum of 20 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 15 of them accredited to Manchester City.

Ahead of this clash, Manchester City have not been beaten in their last 26 league matches at home. What a fortress.

Aston Villa

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Aston Villa go into this meeting following a 2-0 Premier League win in the defeat of Wolverhampton Wanderers in their previous match.

Unai Emery's Aston Villa have fired home a total of 10 times throughout their latest 6 matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during those same clashes comes to 7.

Looking at their past form shows that Aston Villa:

• are winless against Manchester City when they've played them away from home in the last 13 league matches. A truly shameful run of away results.
• are undefeated in their previous 5 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 21/04/2021 tells us that Manchester City have won 4 of them and Aston Villa 1, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

18 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 11 of them for The Citizens and 7 for The Villans. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.

The last league clash featuring the two was Premier League match day 15 on 06/12/2023 when it ended Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City.

On that occasion, Aston Villa had 46% possession and 22 shots on goal with 7 on target. The scorer was Leon Bailey (74').

On the other side, Manchester City got 2 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

The match was refereed by John Brooks.

🗞️ Team News: Manchester City

Kevin De Bruyne (Groin strain) and Ederson (Muscle injury) are unavailable for Manchester City gaffer Pep Guardiola.

It seems likely that The Citizens may well employ a 4-2-3-1 system this time with Stefan Ortega, Rico Lewis, Manuel Akanji, Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiol, Rodri, Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden, Julian Alvarez, Jeremy Doku and Erling Haaland.

📋 Team News: Aston Villa

Aston Villa boss Unai Emery has some current player fitness concerns. Boubacar Kamara (Knee injury), Matty Cash (Hamstring injury), Emiliano Buendía (Cruciate ligament tear) and Tyrone Mings (Cruciate ligament tear) can’t be considered.

From our viewpoint, The Villans seem most likely to make use of a 4-4-1-1 system, settling for Emiliano Martinez, Ezri Konsa, Diego Carlos, Pau Torres, Lucas Digne, Leon Bailey, Youri Tielemans, Douglas Luiz, Morgan Rogers, Moussa Diaby and Jhon Duran.

💡 Prediction

In this game, Aston Villa are dangerous enough to score against this Manchester City team, although that probably won’t quite be as many as they will have scored against them.

We’re going for a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning margin for Manchester City at full-time. We are expecting it to be pretty even.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 19:01 03/04/2024