Manchester City and West Ham United will take on on Sunday the 19th of May at 4:00 pm in the 38th week of the Premier League. The match will take place in Manchester at the Etihad Stadium. The encounter will be officiated by John Brooks.
Manchester City sits in the 1st position in the league with 88 points. It comes from a 0-2 win against Tottenham Hotspur in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 27 times, draw 7 times, and lost 3 times.
Manchester City won the last 8 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 6th of December against Aston Villa and the score was 1-0.
West Ham United is in the 9th place in the league with 52 points. It comes from a 3-1 win against Luton Town in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 14 times, draw 10 times, and lost 13 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 (21 times or 56.76%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (21 times), 3-2-4-1 (9 times) and 4-1-4-1 (7 times).
Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against West Ham United with the following players: Stefan Ortega, Josko Gvardiol, Rúben Dias, Manuel Akanji, Kyle Walker, Mateo Kovacic, Rodri, Phil Foden, Bernardo Silva and Erling Haaland.
Suppose that the above line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Manchester City would be 28.00.
There are doubts about the presence of Kevin De Bruyne.
Ederson will definitely miss the match.
West Ham United
West Ham United has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (33 times or 89.19%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (33 times), 4-3-3 (2 times), 4-3-2-1 (once) and 4-4-1-1 (once).
David Moyes is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: Alphonse Areola, Emerson Palmieri, Angelo Ogbonna, Kurt Zouma, Vladimir Coufal, Tomas Soucek , Edson Álvarez, Lucas Paquetá, James Ward-Prowse, Mohammed Kudus and Jarrod Bowen.
If the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of West Ham United would be 29.45.
David Moyes will probably not be able to employ Nayef Aguerd and Konstantinos Mavropanos because of injury.
Kalvin Phillips will definitely miss the match.