📊 Form Guide

Manchester City

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Manchester City will be looking for another win after a 2-0 FA Cup victory against Newcastle United.

In that game, Manchester City had 72% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 5 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Manchester City was Bernardo Silva (13', 31'). On the other side, Newcastle United had 2 attempts at goal with 1 on target.

Manchester City haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, netting in one hundred percent of their last 6 matches.

They’ve managed to rack up 16 during that period and have conceded a total of 5.

Arsenal

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Arsenal go into this meeting following a 1-0 Champions League win over Porto in their last outing.

In that match, Arsenal had 58% possession and 13 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Arsenal was Leandro Trossard (41'). For their opponents, Porto got 10 shots at goal with 3 on target. Arsenal won the match 4-2 in a dramatic penalty shootout.

The attack-minded Arsenal have helped themselves to an avalanche of goals over their last six games (18 to be exact). That works out as the ominous average of 3 goals scored per match for this period of time. That trend won’t necessarily follow through into this match, of course.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 01/01/2022 tells us that Manchester City have won 4 of them and Arsenal 1, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

16 goals were scored between them in these games, with 11 of them from The Citizens and 5 netted by The Gunners. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The previous league fixture between these sides was Premier League match day 8 on 08/10/2023 when the final score was Arsenal 1-0 Manchester City.

That day, Arsenal had 49% possession and 12 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer was Gabriel Martinelli (86').

For their opponents, Manchester City got 4 shots on goal with 1 on target.

The match was refereed by Michael Oliver.

📋 Team News: Manchester City

Ederson (Muscle injury) and Kevin De Bruyne (Groin strain) will be missing for Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola.

📰 Team News: Arsenal

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has to choose a team with limited availability. Gabriel Martinelli (Foot injury), Jurrien Timber (Cruciate ligament tear) and Bukayo Saka (unknown injury) miss out here.

💭 Prediction

We believe that Arsenal will have to perform well to hit the back of the net against this Manchester City outfit who we think will likely do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

We’re therefore expecting a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 1-0 advantage for Manchester City at the end of this game.

Little in this one.

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

Peter Guest, 15:02 31/03/2024