Manchester City and Wolverhampton Wanderers are going to face off on Saturday the 11th of December at 12:30 pm in the 16th week of the Premier League. The match is going to take place in Manchester at the Etihad Stadium. The chosen referee is Jonathan Moss.
Manchester City sits in the 1st place in the table with 35 points. It comes from a 1-3 win against Watford in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 11 times, drawn twice, and lost twice.
Manchester City won the last 5 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 30th of October against Crystal Palace and the score was 0-2.
Wolverhampton Wanderers is in the 8th position in the table with 21 points. It comes from a 0-1 loss against Liverpool in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 6 times, draw 3 times, and lost 6 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 (14 times or 93.33%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (14 times) and 4-2-3-1 (once).
Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against Wolverhampton Wanderers with the following players: E. Santana de Moraes, J. Cavaco Cancelo, R. Santos Gato Alves Dias, A. Laporte, K. Walker, İ. Gündoğan, B. Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva, R. Hernández Cascante, R. Sterling, R. Mahrez and J. Grealish.
If the line up is confirmed, the average age of Manchester City would be 27.55.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will probably not be able to employ N. Aké, P. Foden and G. de Jesus because of injury.
K. De Bruyne and F. Torres García will definitely miss the match.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will not be able to have the presence of B. Mendy who is suspended.
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wolverhampton Wanderers has mostly adopted the 3-4-3 line-up most used during the season (10 times or 66.67%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-3 (10 times) and 3-4-2-1 (5 times).
Bruno Miguel Silva do Nascimento is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: J. Malheiro de Sá, R. Saïss, C. Coady, M. Kilman, L. Dendoncker, R. Da Silva Neves, N. Cabral Semedo, H. Hwang, A. Traoré Diarra and R. Jiménez Rodríguez.
Suppose that the above line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Wolverhampton Wanderers would be 26.90.
There are doubts about the presence of R. Aït Nouri.
Bruno Miguel Silva do Nascimento will probably not be able to employ W. Boly and F. Marçal de Oliveira because of injury.
J. Ruddy, Y. Mosquera and P. Lomba Neto will definitely miss the match.