Manchester City and Chelsea are going to face off on Saturday the 15th of January at 12:30 pm in the 22nd week of the Premier League. The match will be played in Manchester at the Etihad Stadium. The chosen referee is Craig Pawson.
Manchester City sits in the 1st position in the standings with 53 points. It comes from a 1-2 win against Arsenal in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 17 times, drawn twice, and lost twice.
Manchester City won the last 11 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 30th of October against Crystal Palace and the score was 0-2.
Chelsea occupies the 2nd place in the table with 43 points. It comes from a 2-2 draw against Liverpool in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 12 times, draw 7 times, and lost twice.
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 (18 times or 85.71%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (18 times) and 4-2-3-1 (3 times).
Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against Chelsea with the following players: E. Santana de Moraes, J. Cavaco Cancelo, A. Laporte, R. Santos Gato Alves Dias, K. Walker, K. De Bruyne, İ. Gündoğan, R. Hernández Cascante, R. Sterling, B. Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva and G. de Jesus.
In case that the line up is confirmed, the average age of Manchester City would be 28.36.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will probably not be able to employ J. Stones, O. Zinchenko and P. Foden because of injury.
R. Mahrez will definitely miss the match.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will not be able to have the presence of B. Mendy who is suspended.
Chelsea
Chelsea has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (17 times or 80.95%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (17 times), 3-5-2 (2 times), 3-4-3 (once) and 3-4-1-2 (once).
Thomas Tuchel is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: K. Arrizabalaga Revuelta, M. Sarr, T. da Silva, A. Rüdiger, M. Alonso Mendoza, C. Azpilicueta Tanco, N. Kanté, J. Frello Filho, K. Havertz, M. Mount and R. Lukaku Menama.
Granting that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Chelsea would be 29.09.
E. Mendy, T. Chalobah, A. Christensen, B. Chilwell and R. James will definitely miss the match.
