MANCHESTER. Manchester City overcome West Ham United to win 2-1. A goal from M. Lanzini was decisive in the 90min. It was Manchester City to strike first with a goal of I. Gundogan at the 33′. Then Fernandinho scored again for Manchester City in the 90′ minute with a goal. Eventually, M. Lanzini reduced the distance for West Ham United with a goal. Eventually, that was it, and the result remained 2-1.​ Manchester City was vastly superior in terms of ball possession (69%) was among the factors of its victory.​

The match was played at the Etihad Stadium stadium in Manchester on Sunday and it started at 2:00 pm local time. The referee was Michael Oliver with the assistance of Stuart Burt and Simon Bennett. The 4th official was Robert Jones. The weather was snow. The temperature was quite cold at 0.1 degrees Celsius or 32.14 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 93%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Manchester City had a superior ball possession 69% while West Ham United was struggling with a 31% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Manchester City was has a more offensive attitude with 69 dangerous attacks and 20 shots of which 9 were on target. This is one of the reasons why Manchester City won the match​.

Manchester City shot 20 times, 9 on target, 11 off target. Talking about the opposition, West Ham United shot 5 times, 3 on target, 2 off target.

Cards

Manchester City received 2 yellow cards (A. Laporte and J. Cancelo). On the opposite side, West Ham United didn’t receive any yellow card.

Standings

After this match, Manchester City will have 29 points to hold in the 2nd place. On the opposite side, West Ham United will stay with 23 points like Arsenal to sit in the 4th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Premier League, Manchester City will play away against Aston Villa on the 1st of December with a 22-4 head to head record in favor of Manchester City (4 draws).

West Ham United will host Brighton & Hove Albion on the 1st of December with a 3-3 head to head record.

Manchester City – Formation

Manchester City started with a aggressive line-up (4-3-3).

The manager Josep Guardiola i Sala decided to play with the following team: Ederson (7.1), Kyle Walker (6.3), Rúben Dias (7.1), Aymeric Laporte (7.0), João Cancelo (7.4), İlkay Gündoğan (8.3), Rodri (7.6), Bernardo Silva (7.2), Gabriel Jesus (6.3), Riyad Mahrez (6.8) and Raheem Sterling (7.0).

The home team had on the bench: John Stones, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Zack Steffen, Cole Palmer, James McAtee, Nathan Aké, Scott Carson and Fernandinho (7.1).

Substitutions

Manchester City made only 1 change substituting R. Sterling for Fernandinho (87′)​.

Best player: İlkay Gündoğan​

The most impressive player for Manchester City was İlkay Gündoğan.

His rating is (8.3) with 1 goal, 58 passes (96% accurate) and 4 key passes. He was won 4 duels out of 11. He performed 4 crosses.

West Ham United – Formation

West Ham United started with a 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).

David Moyes played with: Łukasz Fabiański (7.4), Ben Johnson (6.9), Craig Dawson (6.8), Kurt Zouma (6.2), Aaron Cresswell (7.1), Tomáš Souček (6.8), Declan Rice (7.2), Pablo Fornals (7.0), Saïd Benrahma (6.4), Arthur Masuaku (6.8) and Michail Antonio (6.3).

These were the players on the bench: Alphonse Aréola, Vladimír Coufal (6.9), Issa Diop, Alex Král, Jarrod Bowen (6.3), Andriy Yarmolenko, Manuel Lanzini (7.3), Mark Noble and Nikola Vlašić.

West Ham United could not rely on the presence of V. Coufal (injured).

Substitutions

West Ham United made 3 changes: S. Benrahma for M. Lanzini (59′), A. Cresswell for V. Coufal (61′) and A. Masuaku for J. Bowen (74′).

Best player: Łukasz Fabiański​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for West Ham United was the goalkeeper: Łukasz Fabiański. His rating is 7.35. He performed 6 saves.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Premier League.​

• Brentford – Everton – 1-0
• Chelsea – Manchester United – 1-1
• Leicester City – Watford – 4-2
• Manchester City – West Ham United – 2-1