PREDICTED STARTING LINE UP: Manchester City vs Watford – 23-04-2022 Premier League – England

Great for fans and soccer fantasy: the possible starting line ups with the players that will play the match between Manchester City and Watford on Saturday the 23rd of April.

PREDICTED STARTING LINE UP: Manchester City vs Watford - 23-04-2022 Premier League - England

Manchester City and Watford are going to play on Saturday the 23rd of April at 3:00 pm in the 34th week of the Premier League. The match will be played in Manchester at the Etihad Stadium. The appointed referee is Kevin Friend.

Manchester City occupies the 1st place in the standings with 77 points. It comes from a 3-0 win against Brighton & Hove Albion in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won 24 times, draw 5 times, and lost 3 times.​​

Watford occupies the 19th position in the standings with 22 points. It comes from a 1-2 loss against Brentford in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 6 times, draw 4 times, and lost 21 times.​​

Line-ups predictions​

These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.​

Manchester City​

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Manchester City has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (28 times or 87.50%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (28 times) and 4-2-3-1 (4 times).

Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against Watford with the following players: E. Santana de Moraes, O. Zinchenko, R. Santos Gato Alves Dias, A. Laporte, B. Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva, İ. Gündoğan, R. Hernández Cascante, R. Sterling, J. Grealish and G. de Jesus.

Granting that the line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Manchester City would be 27.40.

Josep Guardiola i Sala will probably not be able to employ N. Aké, J. Stones and K. Walker because of injury.

K. De Bruyne will definitely miss the match.

Josep Guardiola i Sala will not be able to have the presence of B. Mendy who is suspended​.

Watford​

Line - Ups​

Watford has mostly adopted the 4-1-4-1 line-up most used during the season (12 times or 38.71%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-1-4-1 (12 times), 4-3-3 (10 times), 4-4-2 (4 times), 4-2-3-1 (4 times) and 4-4-1-1 (once).

Roy Hodgson is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: B. Foster, H. Kamara, C. Kabasele, F. Femenía Far, J. Kucka, M. Sissoko, I. Louza, I. Sarr, E. Dennis and J. Junqueira de Jesus.

Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Watford would be 29.00.

Roy Hodgson will probably not be able to employ F. Sierralta Carvallo, W. Troost-Ekong and S. Kalu Ojim because of injury.

D. Rose and J. Hernández Suárez will definitely miss the match.