Sunday, at 16:00, the most interesting match of the inaugural stage in the Premier League takes place, and Arsenal will receive Manchester City’s visit to “Emirates Stadium”. Champions are favorites to win, thanks to extra batch and experience, but Londoners have excellent odds for scored goals and we should see a 5-star show over the weekend.
There are serious reasons why online agencies offer 4.00 for Arsenal. With a new manager on the bench, “tuners” need time to adapt to the new style of work (see what happened to Manchester United after Alex Ferguson’s retirement). It is unquestionable that Arsenal has talent in attack, where Aubameyang and Lacazette can hit anytime, but London’s defense has been a neural point in recent years, and the absences of Mertesacker and Koscielny are hard to cover. City’s passing game will thus produce many occasions in this duel of Spanish managers.
City bought a little and good during the summer break, and now he is attacking Ryiad Mahrez, who will help Aguero and Jesus with balls. De Bruyne will also be in the first 11 and will orchestrate the attack game of the guests, Bernardo and David Silva dangerous. Guardiola’s team showed good things in the summer, where he scored a victory with Bayern Munich (3-2), but also failed with Liverpool (1-2) and Dortmund (0-1). At the first official match in the English Super Cup, City was forced to appeal to Chelsea on “Wembley”, scoring 2-0.
Arsenal has easily scored in the summer.
Arsenal comes after 3 wins in a friendly match and shows an enthusiastic play: 5-1 with PSG, 2-1 with Chelsea and 2-0 with Lazio are the results checked by Unai Emery’s boys. Emery is a coach that is based on quick possession and quick verbalism, so attacks will not be missed in this derby. City has 3 wins and 2 draws in the last 5 direct duels with Arsenal, where the show was at home: 3-0, 3-0, 3-1, 1-1 and 2-2 are the scores recorded. A victory of the “citizens” with goals on both sides seems the most logical outcome in this game, because first-line talent is simply over the defensive security of the two.
Arsenal scored at least 3 goals in each of the last five matches played at home, and in the last 10 Premier League games on the Emirates they have enrolled MEREU at least 3 times. At the same time, Londoners will have the solid edge of their own ground, where they have lost only two of the last 28 championship games. We expect a balanced duel, and a goal scored in the first half opens our doors to win. We also speculate a bet on a draw score of 1-1 or 2-2!
THE PROBABLE TEAMS
Arsenal: Leno – Bellerin, Sokratis, Mustafi, Monreal – Xhaka, Ozil, Torreira – Mkhitaryan, Lacazette, Aubameyang
Manchester City: Ederson – Mendy, Stones, Laporte – B. Silva, Sane, Gundogan, De Bruyne, D. Silva – Jesus, Aguero
PREDICTION: Manchester City to win @ 1.88
