Manchester City and Leicester City will play on Saturday the 15th of April at 5:30 pm in the 31st week of the Premier League. The match is going to be staged in Manchester at the Etihad Stadium. The referee will be Darren England.
Manchester City occupies the 2nd place in the table with 67 points. It comes from a 1-4 win against Southampton in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won 21 times, draw 4 times, and lost 4 times.
Manchester City won the last 5 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 5th of February against Tottenham Hotspur and the score was 1-0.
Leicester City is in the 19th place in the league with 25 points. It comes from a 0-1 loss against AFC Bournemouth in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 7 times, draw 4 times, and lost 19 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 37.93%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (11 times), 3-2-4-1 (7 times), 4-2-3-1 (7 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 Leicester City with the following players: Ederson Moraes, Kyle Walker, Nathan Aké, Aymeric Laporte, John Stones, Rodri Hernández, İlkay Gündoğan, Kevin De Bruyne, Jack Grealish, Riyad Mahrez and Erling Haaland.
Granting that the above line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Manchester City would be 29.45.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will probably not be able to employ Phil Foden because of injury.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will not be able to have the presence of Benjamin Mendy who is suspended.
Leicester City
Leicester City has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 4-2-3-1 and 4-1-4-1 (11 times or 36.67% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (11 times), 4-1-4-1 (11 times), 4-3-3 (2 times), 3-4-3 (2 times), 4-4-2 (2 times) and 3-5-1-1 (2 times).
Dean Smith is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: Daniel Iversen, Victor Kristansen, Wout Faes, Daniel Amartey, Timothy Castagne, Wilfred Ndidi, James Maddison, Mateus Martins and Patson Daka.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Leicester City would be 25.67.
There are doubts about the presence of Harvey Barnes.
Dean Smith will probably not be able to employ Youri Tielemans because of injury.
Ryan Bertrand and James Justin will definitely miss the match.
