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Manchester City vs Southampton Prediction & Betting tips
Manchester City and Southampton met in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday-evening and the game ended in a 3-1 win for Manchester City. On Saturday these two teams will face each other again and this time it is a game in the Premier League.
Manchester City:
The Manchester City of Pep Guardiola wants to be champion for the third time in a row. However, Manchester City is already six points behind Liverpool, and it will be difficult for The Citizens to narrow that gap in the coming months, let alone to pass Liverpool in the rankings. It is not impossible, but Liverpool and Manchester City are matched on paper. For The Citizens it will mainly have to come from the mutual matches with Liverpool.
While fellow Manchester United will play the fourth away match in a row this weekend, Manchester City will play a match at its own Etihad Stadium on Saturday. In the past few weeks, Atalanta Bergamo (5-1, Champions League), Aston Villa (3-0, Premier League) were won and on Tuesday-evening The Citizens in the Carabao Cup won 3-1 against Southampton. At Manchester City, players like Kevin de Bruyne, John Stones and David Silva started on the bench. The Guardiola team, however, was not much less, as it ensured that Riyad Mahrez and Phil Foden, among others, were allowed to start in Pep’s team again.
Southampton:
At Southampton they could – not that they did – incidentally – stay the night in Manchester for the last few days. With great pleasure, The Saints will not have remembered the cup match against Manchester City in the last few days and Southampton will not have much faith in the league match with the Dutch champion. For Ralph Hasenhüttl and Southampton it is especially important to limit the damage on Saturday at the Emirates Stadium, certainly because the goal difference can also make the difference between enforcement and relegation.
Southampton has the worst goal balance in the Premier League, together with Watford. The Saints are two places above Watford and Southampton have so far only eight points in the Premier League. The absolute low point took place last Friday when Southampton lost 0-9 to Leicester City in-house. In defense of Southampton, it can be said that The Saints played more than eighty minutes with ten men due to a stupid red card from Ryan Bertrand, but then a club like Southampton should not lose 0-9 to Leicester City. Saturday afternoon, The Saints will undoubtedly have to collect some goals again at Etihad Stadium.
Manchester City vs Southampton head to head matches
29.10.19 EFL Manchester City Southampton 3 : 1
30.12.18 PL Southampton Manchester City 1 : 3
04.11.18 PL Manchester City Southampton 6 : 1
13.05.18 PL Southampton Manchester City 0 : 1
29.11.17 PL Manchester City Southampton 2 : 1