📊 Form Guide

Manchester City

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Manchester City will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following the 1-2 FA Cup triumph versus Bournemouth.

In that game, Manchester City had 64% possession and 17 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. For Manchester City, goals were scored by Erling Haaland (49') and Omar Marmoush (63'). Bournemouth got 5 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Evanilson (21') was the scorer for Bournemouth.

It’s been seldom in recent times where Manchester City have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Manchester City have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 7 goals during that time. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to be sustained into this next game, though.

Taking a look at their past results, Manchester City:

• have not lost a league tie with Leicester City in their previous 6 games.
• are without a home win in the past 2 league games.

Leicester City

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Manchester United in Premier League competition, Leicester City will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, Leicester City had 54% possession and 11 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. On the other side, Manchester United had 18 shots on goal with 5 on target. Rasmus Højlund (28'), Alejandro Garnacho (67') and Bruno Fernandes (90') scored for Manchester United.

The trend of at least one team drawing a blank in games featuring Leicester City has become fairly consistent recently. Examining their last six outings shows that it has occurred 5 times. In those clashes, their opponents have hit a goal tally of 14 while Leicester City have scored 1.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Leicester City:

• have not won against Manchester City when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league games.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 07/08/2021 tells us that Manchester City have won 5 of them and Leicester City 1, with the tally of drawn games being 0.

An aggregate of 18 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 13 from The Citizens and 5 belonging to The Foxes. That’s an average goals per game of 3.

The last league meeting featuring the two was Premier League match day 19 on 29/12/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Leicester City 0-2 Manchester City.

On that day, Leicester City had 54% possession and 12 shots at goal with 4 of them on target.

On the other side, Manchester City had 14 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Savinho (21') and Erling Haaland (74') scored.

The match was refereed by Michael Oliver.

ℹ️ Team News: Manchester City

Manuel Akanji (Adductor injury), John Stones (Hamstring injury), Erling Haaland (Ankle injury), Nathan Aké (Foot surgery) and Rodri (Cruciate ligament tear) are not available for Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola.

It’s our opinion that The Citizens may well line up in a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game and select Ederson Moraes, Matheus Nunes, Ruben Dias, Abdukodir Khusanov, Josko Gvardiol, Nico Gonzalez, Ilkay Gundogan, Savinho, Omar Marmoush, Jeremy Doku and Phil Foden.

📋 Team News: Leicester City

Leicester City manager Ruud van Nistelrooy has multiple availability issues to deal with. Oliver Skipp (Groin problems), Issahaku Fatawu (Cruciate ligament surgery) and Harry Souttar (Achilles tendon rupture) are not able to play.

We are inclined to think that The Foxes seem most likely to play in a 4-4-2 system, going with Mads Hermansen, Wout Faes, Conor Coady, Luke Thomas, James Justin, Wilfred Ndidi, Boubakary Soumare, Victor Kristiansen, Jordan Ayew, Bilal El Khannouss and Jamie Vardy.

⚡ Prediction

We’re thinking that Leicester City will manage to score against this Manchester City outfit, although that may not be enough to avoid a loss.

We’re going for both teams to score in a 2-1 advantage for Manchester City by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. We’ll have to see what happens.

Renata Leite, 18:03 02/04/2025