Manchester City and Everton are going to play on Saturday the 10th of February at 12:30 pm in the 24th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be staged in Manchester at the Etihad Stadium. The encounter will be officiated by John Brooks.
Manchester City is in the 2nd place in the standings with 49 points. It comes from a 1-3 win against Brentford in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won 15 times, draw 4 times, and lost 3 times.
Manchester City won the last 5 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 6th of December against Aston Villa and the score was 1-0.
Everton is in the 18th place in the table with 19 points. It comes from a 2-2 draw against Tottenham Hotspur in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 8 times, draw 5 times, and lost 10 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 (16 times or 72.73%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (16 times), 3-2-4-1 (5 times) and 4-1-4-1 (once).
Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against Everton with the following players: Ederson, Josko Gvardiol, Nathan Aké, Rúben Dias, Kyle Walker , Rodri, Phil Foden, Julián Álvarez, Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva and Erling Haaland.
Granting that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Manchester City would be 27.82.
Everton
Everton has mostly adopted the 4-4-1-1 line-up during the season (17 times or 73.91%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-1-1 (17 times), 5-4-1 (2 times), 4-2-3-1 (2 times), 4-1-4-1 (once) and 4-5-1 (once).
Sean Dyche is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: Jordan Pickford, Vitaliy Mykolenko, Jarrad Branthwaite, James Tarkowski, Ben Godfrey, Dwight McNeil, James Garner, Idrissa Gueye, Ashley Young, Jack Harrison and Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
Granting that the line up is confirmed, the average age of Everton would be 28.36.
Sean Dyche will probably not be able to employ Amadou Onana because of injury.
Arnaut Danjuma, Abdoulaye Doucouré and André Gomes will definitely miss the match.
