Manchester City and Wolverhampton Wanderers will take on on Saturday the 4th of May at 5:30 pm in the 36th week of the Premier League. The match will take place in Manchester at the Etihad Stadium. The referee will be Craig Pawson.
Manchester City sits in the 2nd position in the standings with 79 points. It comes from a 0-2 win against Nottingham Forest in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 24 times, draw 7 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.
Wolverhampton Wanderers occupies the 11th position in the table with 46 points. It comes from a 2-1 win against Luton Town in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 13 times, draw 8 times, and lost 14 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 (19 times or 55.88%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (19 times), 3-2-4-1 (9 times) and 4-1-4-1 (6 times).
Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against Wolverhampton Wanderers with the following players: Josko Gvardiol, Manuel Akanji, Kyle Walker, Rodri, Jack Grealish, Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva and Erling Haaland.
In case that the above line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Manchester City would be 28.63.
There are doubts about the presence of Ederson, Rúben Dias and Phil Foden.
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wolverhampton Wanderers has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up during the season (13 times or 37.14%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (13 times), 3-4-3 (9 times), 4-4-1-1 (3 times), 4-4-2 (3 times), 4-3-3 (2 times), 3-5-2 (2 times), 5-3-2 (once), 3-4-1-2 (once) and 4-2-3-1 (once).
Gary O’Neil is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: José Sá, Max Kilman, Toti, Nélson Semedo, Mario Lemina, João Gomes, Pablo Sarabia, Hee-chan Hwang and Matheus Cunha.
Granting that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Wolverhampton Wanderers would be 28.11.
There are doubts about the presence of Hugo Bueno and Rayan Aït-Nouri.
Gary O’Neil will probably not be able to employ Jean-Ricner Bellegarde and Pedro Neto because of injury.
Craig Dawson, Thomas Doyle and Sasa Kalajdzic will definitely miss the match.
