Crystal Palace and Manchester City will clash on Saturday the 11th of March at 5:30 pm in the 27th week of the Premier League. The match will be staged in London at the Selhurst Park. The encounter will be officiated by Robert Jones.
Crystal Palace sits in the 12th position in the league with 27 points. It comes from a 1-0 loss against Aston Villa in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 6 times, draw 9 times, and lost 10 times.
Manchester City sits in the 2nd place in the league with 58 points. It comes from a 2-0 win against Newcastle United in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 18 times, draw 4 times, and lost 4 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (12 times or 48.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (12 times), 4-3-3 (7 times), 4-1-4-1 (2 times), 5-4-1 (2 times), 4-4-2 (once) and (once).
Patrick Vieira is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: Guaita, Tyrick Mitchell, Marc Guehi, Joachim Andersen, Nathaniel Clyne, Albert Sambi Lokonga, Naouirou Ahamada, Eberechi Eze, Michael Olise, Jordan Ayew and Wilfried Zaha.
If the above line up is confirmed, the average age of Crystal Palace would be 27.00.
Patrick Vieira will probably not be able to employ Nathan Ferguson, Will Hughes and Jeffrey Schlupp because of injury.
Sam Johnstone will definitely miss the match.
Patrick Vieira will not be able to have the presence of Cheick Oumar Doucouré who is suspended.
Manchester City
Manchester City has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 42.31%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (11 times), 4-2-3-1 (6 times), 3-2-4-1 (5 times), 4-1-4-1 (once), 4-4-2 (once), 3-4-3 (once) and 3-4-2-1 (once).
Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against Crystal Palace with the following players: Ederson Moraes, Nathan Aké, Manuel Akanji, Rúben Dias, Kyle Walker, İlkay Gündoğan, Rodri Hernández, Jack Grealish, Kevin De Bruyne, Riyad Mahrez and Erling Haaland.
If the line up is confirmed as above, the projected average age of Manchester City would be 29.09.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will not be able to have the presence of Benjamin Mendy who is suspended.