Manchester City and Burnley will face off on Wednesday the 31st of January at 7:30 pm in the 22nd week of the Premier League. The match is going to be played in Manchester at the Etihad Stadium. The appointed referee is Samuel Barrott.
Manchester City is in the 2nd place in the league with 43 points. It comes from a 2-3 win against Newcastle United in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won 13 times, draw 4 times, and lost 3 times.
Manchester City won the last 3 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 6th of December against Aston Villa and the score was 1-0.
Burnley sits in the 19th position in the league with 12 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Luton Town in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 3 times, draw 3 times, and lost 15 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Manchester City
Manchester City has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (15 times or 75.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (15 times) and 3-2-4-1 (5 times).
Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against Burnley with the following players: Ederson, Joško Gvardiol, Rúben Dias, Nathan Aké, Kyle Walker, Bernardo Silva, Rodri, Kevin De Bruyne, Phil Foden, Jeremy Doku and Julián Álvarez.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the projected average age of Manchester City would be 27.64.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will probably not be able to employ Manuel Akanji and Erling Haaland because of injury.
Burnley
Burnley has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up during the season (12 times or 57.14%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (12 times), 4-3-3 (4 times), 4-2-3-1 (4 times) and 3-4-3 (once).
Vincent Kompany is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: James Trafford, Dara O’Shea, Vitinho, Wilson Odobert, Josh Brownhill , Jóhann Berg Gudmundsson, Lyle Foster and Zeki Amdouni.
Granting that this will be the line-up, the average age of Burnley would be 25.38.
There are doubts about the presence of Charlie Taylor, Jordan Beyer and Sander Berge.
Vincent Kompany will probably not be able to employ Nathan Redmond because of injury.
Luca Koleosho will definitely miss the match.