Manchester City and Leicester City will clash on Sunday the 26th of December at 3:00 pm in the 19th week of the Premier League. The match is going to take place in Manchester at the Etihad Stadium. The chosen referee is Chris Kavanagh.
Manchester City sits 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. Until 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 is in the 9th position in the league with 22 points. It comes from a 4-0 win against Newcastle United in its last match in the Premier League. So 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, O. Zinchenko, R. Santos Gato Alves Dias, A. Laporte, J. Cavaco Cancelo, B. Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva, K. De Bruyne, R. Hernández Cascante, P. Foden, R. Sterling and J. Grealish.
Presuming that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Manchester City would be 26.09.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will probably not be able to employ K. Walker because of injury.
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, J. Vestergaard, O. Ndidi, B. Soumaré, Y. Tielemans, K. Dewsbury-Hall, J. Maddison, P. Daka and J. Vardy.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed as above, the projected average age of Leicester City would be 26.67.
There are doubts about the presence of T. Castagne.
Brendan Rodgers will probably not be able to employ D. Amartey, F. Benković, J. Evans, C. Söyüncü, H. Choudhury and K. Iheanacho because of injury.
W. Fofana, J. Justin, R. Barbosa Pereira and H. Barnes will definitely miss the match.