Wednesday, at 20:00, Manchester City receives West Ham United‘s visit to the 28th Premier League, just days after Pep Guardiola’s team conquered the English League Cup in the Chelsea final (4- 3 dld).
There will be a new meeting between Manuel Pellegrini and Pablo Zabaleta against the “citizens”, with whom both have won important trophies. In the last direct games, Manchester City has clearly shown his superiority, managing to score 4-0 in London. In previous years, City has won comfortably against the “hammers” with 4-1, 4-0, 5-0 and 3-1, so the guests enter the field with a inferiority complex in front of the champions.
West Ham did not beat City for 8 straight duels and Pellegrini’s defensive looks after the matches with Wolverhampton (0-3), Crystal Palace (1-1) and Fulham (3-1). Last season, the Londoners returned from 0-1 to defeat Fulham, but any mistake would be speculated and penalized by Pep Guardiola’s students on Wednesday. City comes after a good series of matches, including Everton (2-0), Chelsea (6-0) and Schalke (3-2), and Etihad has just conquered Wembley’s first season trophy.
Without playing spectacularly against Chelsea, Manchester City was more lucky to score and hit the field with maximum confidence, even if the Catalan manager has batch problems. Fernandinho, Delph, Jesus, Laporte, Stones and Mendy hosts, which limit the selection of Guardiola, but Sergio Aguero (17 goals this season) will again be the main attack weapon for the favorites. The usual thing is to start with the games from Manchester United, Manchester City can bring us the profit from the first half!
MANCHESTER CITY – WEST HAM PROJECT TEAMS
Manchester City: Ederson – Walker, Kompany, Otamendi, Zinchenko – De Bruyne, Gundogan, D. Silva – B. Silva, Aguero, Sane
West Ham: Fabianski – Fredericks, Diop, Ogbonna, Cresswell – Rice – Antonio, Noble, Snodgrass, F. Anderson – Chicharito
PREDICTION: Over 2,5 goals @ 1,32
