Manchester City are the big favourites to win against Southampton. Whereas, Southampton will hope to keep the goals down.
Pep Guardiola’s mean are second in the Premier League table behind Arsenal. However, they are eight points behind the Gunners.
MANCHESTER CITY VS SOUTHAMPTON PLAYERS AVAILABILITY
Southampton will likely not have Valentino Livramento, Armel Bella-Kotchap, Juan Larios available for the Manchester City clash. Whereas, Mohamed Salisu and Che Adams are touch and go for them. Whereas, for Sky Blues, Phil Foden is 100% ruled out for the clash. A report also claims that he is likely out for the next game also against Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
However, the good news for Manchester City and bad news for Southampton is that Erling Haaland is back in training. Hence, they expect him to start the game. This will also give them a boost ahead of the important first leg against Munich in the Champions League. Therefore, it looks like Southampton are already in trouble.
FINAL SCORE PREDICTION OF THE MATCH
Manchester City will try to start the game on attack mode despite being an away side. Therefore, Southampton will hope for full backing from their fans despite their poor Premier League position. However, they will try to counter-attack the Sky Blues with limited opportunities. Hence, Southampton will have to make sure that they defend well.
This is because it can potentially frustrate Manchester City players and fans. Hence, this will also force Pep to make attacking changes. Hence, this can then potentially open more opportunities for counter-attack for the Southampton team . However, we are predicting an easy win for Pep Guardiola’s team. We predict a 5-1 win away for them.
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Manchester City will hope that they can get the three points against Southampton. This will potentially again put pressure on Arsenal to win their next game. A win against Southampton will also provide them a great base to prepare for the first leg against Bayern Munich.
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