Manchester City and Manchester United are going to clash on Sunday the 6th of March at 4:30 pm in the 28th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be staged in Manchester at the Etihad Stadium. The chosen referee is Michael Oliver.
Manchester City is in the 1st place in the league with 66 points. It comes from a 0-1 win against Everton in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 21 times, draw 3 times, and lost 3 times.
Manchester United sits in the 4th position in the standings with 47 points. It comes from a 0-0 draw against Watford in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 13 times, draw 8 times, and lost 6 times.
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 (23 times or 85.19%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (23 times) and 4-2-3-1 (4 times).
Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against Manchester United with the following players: E. Santana de Moraes, J. Cavaco Cancelo, A. Laporte, J. Stones, K. Walker, K. De Bruyne, İ. Gündoğan, R. Hernández Cascante, B. Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva, P. Foden and R. Sterling.
Granting that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Manchester City would be 28.36.
Z. Steffen, N. Aké, R. Santos Gato Alves Dias and C. Palmer will definitely miss the match.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will not be able to have the presence of B. Mendy who is suspended.
Manchester United
Manchester United has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (18 times or 66.67%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (18 times), 4-2-2-2 (5 times), 4-3-3 (once), 4-3-1-2 (once), 3-5-2 (once) and 3-4-1-2 (once).
Ralf Rangnick is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: D. de Gea Quintana, A. Telles, H. Maguire, R. Varane, A. Wan-Bissaka, P. Pogba, B. Borges Fernandes, J. Sancho, M. Rashford and C. Ronaldo.
Presuming that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Manchester United would be 28.60.
There are doubts about the presence of S. McTominay.
Ralf Rangnick will probably not be able to employ E. Cavani because of injury.
Ralf Rangnick will not be able to have the presence of M. Greenwood who is suspended.
