Arsenal and Manchester City will face off on Saturday the 1st of January at 12:30 pm in the 21st week of the Premier League. The match will take place in London at the Emirates Stadium. The chosen referee is Stuart Attwell.
Arsenal is in the 4th place in the table with 35 points. It comes from a 0-5 win against Norwich City in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won 11 times, drawn twice, and lost 6 times.
Arsenal won the last 4 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 6th of December against Everton and the score was 2-1.
Manchester City is in the 1st place in the table with 50 points. It comes from a 0-1 win against Brentford in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 16 times, drawn twice, and lost twice.
Manchester City won the last 10 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 30th of October against Crystal Palace and the score was 0-2.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Arsenal
Arsenal has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (9 times or 47.37%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (9 times), 4-4-1-1 (7 times), 4-4-2 (once), 4-1-4-1 (once) and 5-4-1 (once).
Mikel Arteta Amatriain is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: A. Ramsdale, K. Tierney, G. dos Santos Magalhães, R. Holding, B. White, G. Martinelli Silva, G. Xhaka, T. Partey, B. Saka, M. Ødegaard and A. Lacazette.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Arsenal would be 25.64.
Mikel Arteta Amatriain will probably not be able to employ C. Chambers, P. Marí Villar, C. Alves Soares, T. Tomiyasu, A. Sambi Lokonga and A. Maitland-Niles because of injury.
S. Kolašinac and P. Aubameyang will definitely miss the match.
Manchester City
Manchester City has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (17 times or 85.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (17 times) and 4-2-3-1 (3 times).
Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against Arsenal with the following players: E. Santana de Moraes, R. Santos Gato Alves Dias, A. Laporte, J. Cavaco Cancelo, O. Zinchenko, B. Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva, F. Rosa, İ. Gündoğan, R. Mahrez, K. De Bruyne and R. Sterling.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of Manchester City would be 29.36.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will probably not be able to employ J. Stones, K. Walker and R. Hernández Cascante because of injury.
P. Foden will definitely miss the match.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will not be able to have the presence of B. Mendy who is suspended.