📏 Form Guide
Manchester City WWLLWW
Manchester City will be looking for a repeat result of a 4-5 Premier League triumph over Fulham.
In that match, Manchester City managed 43% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. For Manchester City, the scorers were Erling Haaland (17'), Tijjani Reijnders (37') and Phil Foden (44', 48'). At the other end, Fulham got 12 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Emile Smith Rowe (45'), Sander Berge (54' Own goal), Alex Iwobi (57') and Samuel Chukwueze (72', 78') scored for Fulham.
At least three goals per game were seen in 5 of the last 6 meetings where Manchester City have participated. Opposing sides scored 11 times in this period while Manchester City bagged a total of 16. However, we’ll just have to find out whether that trend might be maintained here in this game or not.
Taking a look at their past results, Manchester City:
- haven't lost in the league to Sunderland in their previous 7 games.
- are unbeaten in their previous 6 home league matches.
Sunderland WDDLWD
In their previous game, Sunderland drew 1-1 in the Premier League tie with Liverpool.
In that match, Sunderland had 33% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 6 on target. For Sunderland, the goalscorers were Chemsdine Talbi (67') and Nordi Mukiele (81' Own goal). For their opponents, Liverpool had 23 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.
Looking at their form, and Sunderland have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 7 goals overall. In defence, Sunderland have seen their frailties exposed.
Coming into this clash, Sunderland have not beaten Manchester City when having played them away from home in the previous 13 matches in the league. A truly shameful run of away results.
↔️ Head to head
Looking at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 01/01/2015 tells us that these fixtures have been a source of anguish for Sunderland. They have not managed to come away with any victories whatsoever while Manchester City have simply been better than them, getting wins in 100% of those games where they have faced each other.
A sum of 21 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 16 from The Citizens and 5 belonging to The Black Cats. That is an average goals per game value of 3.5.
The last league clash between these sides was Premier League match day 27 on 05/03/2017 when it finished Sunderland 0-2 Manchester City.
That time, Sunderland had 29% possession and 11 shots on goal with 3 of them on target.
On the other side, Manchester City got 14 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Sergio Agüero (42') and Leroy Sané (59') scored.
The referee was Martin Atkinson.
ℹ️ Team News: Manchester City
We think that The Citizens will possibly line up in a 4-3-3 system for the game featuring Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matheus Nunes, Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiol, Nico O'Reilly, Tijjani Reijnders, Nico Gonzalez, Phil Foden, Rayan Cherki, Erling Haaland and Jeremy Doku.
📋 Team News: Sunderland
It’s our belief that The Black Cats seem most likely to make use of a 3-2-4-1 formation, settling for Robin Roefs, Nordi Mukiele, Daniel Ballard, Omar Alderete, Trai Hume, Reinildo, Bertrand Traore, Granit Xhaka, Noah Sadiki, Enzo Le Fee and Wilson Isidor.
🧠 Prediction
It’s pretty clear that Sunderland may well find it hard to break down a Manchester City side who will more than likely dominate this match.
We predict a very comfortable 3-0 winning margin for Manchester City at the end of the game.