Wolves vs Manchester City Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Wolverhampton Wanderers

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Wolves head into this fixture coming off the back of a 2-2 Premier League stalemate against Chelsea.

In that match, Wolverhampton Wanderers managed 41% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 4 on target. For Wolverhampton Wanderers, the goalscorers were Trincão (79') and Conor Coady (97'). On the other side, Chelsea got 19 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Romelu Lukaku (56', 58') scored for Chelsea.

It has been seldom in recent games where Wolverhampton Wanderers have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Wolverhampton Wanderers have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 11 goals in the process. We will see if that trend can be continued on into this next match.

Coming into this meeting, Wolverhampton Wanderers have not emerged victorious against Manchester City in their last 3 matches in the league.

Manchester City

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Manchester City head into the meeting following on from a 5-0 Premier League win with the eclipse of Newcastle United in their most recent fixture.

In that game, Manchester City had 71% possession and 21 shots at goal with 9 on target. For Manchester City, the goalscorers were Raheem Sterling (19', 93'), Aymeric Laporte (38'), Rodri (61') and Phil Foden (90'). For their opponents, Newcastle United had 7 shots at goal with 3 on target.

With their forward play coming to the fore of late, Manchester City have enjoyed getting themselves a plethora of goals in their past 6 encounters (22 in all). That translates to the impressive average of 3.67 goals scored per match during this period.

Going into this contest, Manchester City are unbeaten in their last 15 league matches away from home. Not many clubs can boast an away record as good as that.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head to head clashes going back to 14/01/2019 tells us that Wolves have won 2 of them and Manchester City 4, with the number of drawn matches being 0.

In all, 20 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 7 of them for Wolves and 13 for The Citizens. That’s an average goals per game of 3.33.

📋 Team News: Wolves

Rúben Neves (Knee Injury), Max Kilman (Knock), Daniel Podence (Foot Injury) and Matija Sarkic (Shoulder Injury) aren’t available for Wolves manager Bruno Lage.

It’s our opinion that Wolves will probably use the 3-4-2-1 system for this one featuring Jose Sa, Willy Boly, Conor Coady, Leander Dendoncker, Jonny, Joao Moutinho, Ruben Neves, Rayan Ait Nouri, Chiquinho, Pedro Neto and Raul Jimenez.

🗞️ Team News: Manchester City

With a fully healthy group to pick from, the Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola does not have any fitness concerns to report coming into this game.

We believe The Citizens will likely make use of a 4-3-3 system, giving starts to Ederson Moraes, Joao Cancelo, Fernandinho, Aymeric Laporte, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Kevin De Bruyne, Rodri, Ilkay Gundogan, Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden and Raheem Sterling.

💡 Prediction

We’re of the view that Manchester City should really get the win and a possible clean sheet when they play Wolverhampton Wanderers, who won’t find it easy getting on the scoresheet.

We’re tipping a pretty comfortable 0-2 margin for Manchester City when the full-time whistle blows.

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

Renata Leite, 23:56 06/05/2022