Wednesday evening, at 19:45, Manchester City receives Cardiff City’s 33rd Premier League match in a match where Pep Guardiola has a close-up team, with the exception of Delph and Mendy. Cardiff comes after a frustrating failure with Chelsea (1-2) and has less and less chances to save from relegation this season.
Etihad Stadium’s play opposes two bands in completely different moods. Manchester City goes unbeaten in the championship and has 5 consecutive wins, the last of them a 2-0 “service” on Fulham’s ground, another team threatened with relegation. For Liverpool to score in Tottenham derby (2-1), “cormorants” returned to number 1 in the standings, but only two points ahead of City, which has a less played match. With a success in front of Cardiff, “citizens” would once again become favorites in the title of England.
Cardiff is in place (18-28 goals) and suffered four defeats in the previous five stages, without playing bad. With 8 wins in 31 matches and a modest attack, Welsh will be supernumeric in front of Manchester City, which has a much higher value batch. The hosts will not miss the stars De Bruyne, Silva, Sane, Sterling and Aguero, and the offensive statistics of “citizens” are really impressive. Because of the small odds given to the hosts, it’s hard to find a real “safe” bet, but we can count on City’s dominance and supremacy, which has a very good balance with relegation teams.
Manchester City comes after success with Fulham, Swansea (3-2 in the Cup), Schalke (7-0 in the Champions League), Watford (3-1) and Bournemouth (1-0) and Guardiola does not conceive the wrong steps in front of him Cardiff, which has only earned 8 points on foreign ground this season. On the tour, on the Cardiff Stadium, Manchester City put a 5-0 defeat, in which the defensive of the hosts was totally overtaken by the technique and speed of the attackers of the en-titre champion. City has the habit of starting “like a cannon” parties, and that’s likely to happen on Wednesday night.
PREDICTION: Over 3,5 goals @ 1,58
