📊 Form Guide

Manchester City

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Manchester City will be looking for an improved result here after the 2-1 Premier League loss in their previous game against Brighton & Hove Albion.

In that game, Manchester City managed 60% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The only player to score for Manchester City was Erling Haaland (23'). At the other end, Brighton & Hove Albion had 10 attempts on goal with 4 on target. João Pedro (78') and Matt O'Riley (83') scored for Brighton & Hove Albion.

Fixtures with Manchester City have usually been lively ones of late with a lot of goalmouth action being the norm. Over their past 6 clashes, the sum of 20 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 10 of those belonging to Manchester City. Such a pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this match, of course.

Taking a look at their past results, Manchester City:

• are unbeaten in the league by Tottenham Hotspur in their previous 2 matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 35 league matches at home. Incredible, really.

Tottenham Hotspur

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against Ipswich Town in Premier League competition, Tottenham Hotspur and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Tottenham Hotspur had 66% possession and 17 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. The only player to score for Tottenham Hotspur was Rodrigo Bentancur (69'). Ipswich Town had 8 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Sammie Szmodics (31') and Liam Delap (43') scored for Ipswich Town.

The stats don’t lie, and Tottenham Hotspur have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 8 goals overall. Defensively, Tottenham Hotspur have been far from perfect.

Their prior results show that Tottenham Hotspur:

• haven't won against Manchester City when they've played them away from home in the last 2 matches in the league.
• are without a win away from home in their last 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their prior head to head meetings going back to 19/01/2023 shows us that Manchester City have won 3 of these games & Tottenham Hotspur 2, with the tally of drawn games being 1.

In all, 19 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 11 for The Citizens and 8 created by Spurs. That is an average goals per game value of 3.17.

📰 Team News: Manchester City

It’s our opinion that The Citizens will probably use the 4-2-3-1 system for this one, utilising Ederson Moraes, Kyle Walker, John Stones, Manuel Akanji, Josko Gvardiol, Rico Lewis, Ilkay Gundogan, Savinho, Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden and Erling Haaland.

📰 Team News: Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham Hotspur boss Ange Postecoglou has to choose a team with limited availability. Micky van de Ven (Hamstring injury), Wilson Odobert (Thigh problems), Mikey Moore (Ill) and Richarlison (unknown injury) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

From our viewpoint, Spurs seem most likely to elect for a 4-3-3 system, going with Guglielmo Vicario, Pedro Porro, Radu Dragusin, Ben Davies, Destiny Udogie, James Maddison, Yves Bissouma, Pape Sarr, Dejan Kulusevski, Dominic Solanke and Heung-Min Son.

⚡ Prediction

In this game, Manchester City are likely to be able to create a high number of chances and successful shots on target.

At the other end, Tottenham Hotspur may well find it hard finding the net themselves although we do see them managing to get on the scoresheet here.

Accordingly, we see a fairly comfortable 3-1 victory for Manchester City at full-time.

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

Renata Leite, 17:01 23/11/2024