Manchester City and Crystal Palace are going to take on on Saturday the 27th of August at 3:00 pm in the 4th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be staged in Manchester at the Etihad Stadium. The encounter will be officiated by Darren England.
Manchester City sits in the 2nd position in the standings with 7 points. It comes from a 3-3 draw against Newcastle United in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won twice and drawn once.
Crystal Palace is in the 9th place in the standings with 4 points. It comes from a 3-1 win against Aston Villa in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won once, drawn once, and lost once.
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 (2 times or 66.67%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (2 times) and 4-2-3-1 (once).
Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against Crystal Palace with the following players: E. Santana de Moraes, J. Cavaco Cancelo, R. Santos Gato Alves Dias, J. Stones, K. Walker, K. De Bruyne, İ. Gündoğan, R. Hernández Cascante, P. Foden, B. Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva and E. Håland.
Presuming that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Manchester City would be 27.55.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will probably not be able to employ J. Grealish and K. Phillips because of injury.
N. Aké and A. Laporte will definitely miss the match.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will not be able to have the presence of B. Mendy who is suspended.
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 4-3-3 and 5-4-1 (1 times or 33.33% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (once), 5-4-1 (once) and 4-2-3-1 (once).
Patrick Vieira is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: V. Guaita Panadero, T. Mitchell, M. Guehi, J. Ward, J. Andersen, N. Clyne, E. Eze, C. Doucoure, J. Schlupp, J. Ayew and O. Édouard.
In case that the line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Crystal Palace would be 27.36.
J. Butland, N. Ferguson, J. Tomkins, J. McArthur and W. Zaha will definitely miss the match.
