Manchester City and Everton will clash on Saturday the 31st of December at 3:00 pm in the 18th week of the Premier League. The match will be played in Manchester at the Etihad Stadium. The encounter will be officiated by Andy Madley.
Manchester City occupies the 2nd position in the standings with 35 points. It comes from a 1-3 win against Leeds United in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 11 times, drawn twice, and lost twice.
Everton is in the 16th place in the standings with 14 points. It comes from a 1-2 loss against Wolverhampton Wanderers in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 3 times, draw 5 times, and lost 8 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Manchester City
Manchester City has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 73.33%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (11 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times) and 3-4-2-1 (once).
Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against Everton with the following players: E. Santana de Moraes, J. Cavaco Cancelo, M. Akanji, A. Laporte, K. Walker, K. De Bruyne, İ. Gündoğan, R. Hernández Cascante, P. Foden, B. Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva and E. Haaland.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Manchester City would be 27.73.
R. Santos Gato Alves Dias and J. Álvarez will definitely miss the match.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will not be able to have the presence of B. Mendy who is suspended.
Everton
Everton has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (9 times or 56.25%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (9 times), 3-4-3 (3 times), 4-2-3-1 (2 times), 5-3-2 (once) and 5-4-1 (once).
Frank Lampard is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: J. Pickford, V. Mykolenko, J. Tarkowski, C. Coady, N. Patterson, A. Mvom Onana, A. Iwobi, I. Gueye, A. Gordon, D. Gray and N. Maupay.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed, the average age of Everton would be 25.82.
Frank Lampard will probably not be able to employ Y. Mina González and D. Calvert-Lewin because of injury.
J. Garner and A. Townsend will definitely miss the match.
