Manchester City and Leicester City are going to face on Sunday the 26th of December at 3:00 pm in the 19th week of the Premier League. The match will be staged in Manchester at the Etihad Stadium. The chosen referee is Chris Kavanagh.
Manchester City is in the 1st place in the table with 44 points. It comes from a 0-4 win against Newcastle United in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won 14 times, drawn twice, and lost twice.
Manchester City won the last 8 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 30th of October against Crystal Palace and the score was 0-2.
Leicester City occupies the 9th place in the standings with 22 points. It comes from a 4-0 win against Newcastle United in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 6 times, draw 4 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 (15 times or 83.33%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (15 times) and 4-2-3-1 (3 times).
Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against Leicester City with the following players: E. Santana de Moraes, J. Cavaco Cancelo, A. Laporte, R. Santos Gato Alves Dias, K. De Bruyne, B. Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva, R. Hernández Cascante, P. Foden, R. Sterling and J. Grealish.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Manchester City would be 26.20.
There are doubts about the presence of K. Walker.
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.
Leicester City
Leicester City has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (7 times or 43.75%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (7 times), 4-3-3 (3 times), 3-4-1-2 (3 times), 4-4-2 (2 times) and 3-4-3 (once).
Brendan Rodgers is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: K. Schmeichel, L. Thomas, T. Castagne, O. Ndidi, B. Soumaré, Y. Tielemans, H. Barnes, K. Dewsbury-Hall, J. Maddison and J. Vardy.
Granting that the line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Leicester City would be 26.44.
There are doubts about the presence of D. Amartey.
Brendan Rodgers will probably not be able to employ F. Benković, J. Evans, C. Söyüncü, J. Vestergaard, H. Choudhury, A. Lookman, K. Iheanacho and A. Pérez Gutiérrez because of injury.
W. Fofana and J. Justin will definitely miss the match.
