UPDATED PREDICTED LINE UP: Southampton vs Manchester City – 22-01-2022 Premier League – England

UPDATED January 20th. Great for fans and soccer fantasy: the possible starting line ups with the players that will play the match between Southampton and Manchester City on Saturday the 22nd of January.

UPDATED PREDICTED LINE UP: Southampton vs Manchester City - 22-01-2022 Premier League - England

Southampton and Manchester City are going to clash on Saturday the 22nd of January at 5:30 pm in the 23rd week of the Premier League. The match is going to take place in Southampton at the St. Mary’s Stadium. The chosen referee is Simon Hooper.

Southampton occupies the 12th place in the league with 24 points. It comes from a 3-1 loss against Wolverhampton Wanderers in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 5 times, draw 9 times, and lost 7 times.​​

Manchester City occupies the 1st place in the league with 56 points. It comes from a 1-0 win against Chelsea in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 18 times, drawn twice, and lost twice.​​

Manchester City won the last 12 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.​

Southampton​

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Southampton has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (15 times or 71.43%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (15 times), 3-5-2 (2 times), 4-1-4-1 (2 times), 5-3-2 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).

Ralph Hasenhüttl is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: F. Forster, L. Silveira Neves Vojnović, J. Bednarek, M. Karim, K. Walker-Peters, O. Romeu Vidal, J. Ward-Prowse, I. Diallo, N. Tella, A. Broja and N. Redmond.

Presuming that the above line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Southampton would be 26.09.

Ralph Hasenhüttl will probably not be able to employ M. Elyounoussi and T. Walcott because of injury.

A. McCarthy, V. Livramento and M. Djenepo will definitely miss the match.

Manchester City​

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Manchester City has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (18 times or 81.82%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (18 times) and 4-2-3-1 (4 times).

Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against Southampton with the following players: E. Santana de Moraes, J. Cavaco Cancelo, R. Santos Gato Alves Dias, A. Laporte, K. Walker, B. Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva, R. Hernández Cascante, K. De Bruyne, J. Grealish, R. Sterling and P. Foden.

Presuming that the line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Manchester City would be 27.64.

Josep Guardiola i Sala will probably not be able to employ N. Aké and C. Palmer because of injury.

O. Zinchenko and 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​​.