After the Carabao Cup is ahead of the Premier League. For Manchester City, it’s back into everyday life and the Citizens receive on 04.11.2018 at 15:00 clock German time Southampton FC. As with every top team from Europe, the success also has its downsides. So had the “Skyblues” from 20.10. until 11.11. contest a total of seven games. Thus, on average they have to play a game every three days. Southampton has it easier and could prepare for a whole week for this duel. Whether the multiple load will affect this game, we will see on Sunday in Etihad Stadium.
Manchester City:
In the Premier League, Manchester City recently put an exclamation point in the direction of the competition. The way to the championship will only lead through the “Skyblues”. 1: 0 defeated the Guardiola Elf Tottenham Hotspurs. On a virtually unplayable reason, a good scene was enough to leave the game as the winner. In the end, almost the equalizer was down, but it was probably due to the pitch that the ball before the safe equalizer still skipped slightly.
After ten games, Manchester City are ahead of Liverpool FC with 26 points and a 27: 3 aggregate goal difference on goal difference. They have won every match at Etihad Stadium, scoring 18 goals and only conceding two. Excluding the Champions League, they have been without conceding for seven games. The list of all positive statistics we could continue forever. It remains to be noted that Manchester City, together with the “Reds” probably the best English football team. Guardiola has to renounce Kevin de Bruyne and Claudio Bravo.
Southampton:
Southampton is currently ranked 16th. With a score of 6:14, seven points are on the credit side. The gap to 18th place is just two points. The “Saints” are accordingly under pressure to move. There is not much that is positive about Mark Hughes’s troupe. The only aspect that could bring some hope is that they did not concede a goal in the last two games. Twice they separated from their opponents 0-0 (Bournemouth and Newcastle). Admittedly, these are not top-five teams, but they seem to have been able to work a little on the defensive, the match record of the previous three games was still 0-8 – although fair to mention that here opponents such as Chelsea and Liverpool were waiting.
PREDICTION: Over 3.5 goals @ 1.78
