Manchester City take on the visitors Manchester United at the City of Manchester Stadium in the 12th tour of the Premier League. The match will be played in the eponymous city Manchester on Sunday, November 11th.
The defensive line of Manchester City has been the safest one so far this Premier League season. They have conceded only four goals in the league. Furthermore, in six of their seven last games the Citizens managed to allow zero goals. It often happens that even if they concede they would not let it happen more than once in their fixtures. That statistics is not surprising at all because the team of Pep Guardiola often keeps the ball under their control and does not let their opponents create a lot of goal attempts. Furthermore, the Sky Blues have been the most productive team in the Premier League so far, they have already scored 33 goals in eleven games. Interestingly, the team has scored 22 out of those 33 goals against Cardiff City, Southampton, Burnley and Huddersfield Town only. That meant that the Citizens managed to crush outsiders only and struggled a bit against the top tier teams. In their last three matches Manchester City beat Shakhtar Donetsk with a 6-0 score in their UEFA Champions League group stage fixture, Southampton with a 6-1 score and Fulham with a 2-0 score in their 1/8-finals fixture of the EFL Cup.
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Manchester United often have over 2.5 goals scored in their Premier League fixtures. Nine of their eleven league games so far have ended exactly with over 2.5 goals scored. However, there have been under 3.5 goals scored in seven of those eleven fixtures. Interestingly, there have been over 3.5 goals scored in those matches only where the Red Devils have forgotten about their defense and have conceded at least one goal. Now it is obvious that Manchester United will lean on their defensive line fully against Manchester City. This playing style exactly allowed them to draw against Chelsea with a 2-2 score on the away field several tours ago. In their last three matches Manchester United beat Juventus with a 2-1 score in their UEFA Champions League group stage fixture, Bournemouth with the same 2-1 score and Everton with a 2-1 score too.
The matches between Manchester City and Manchester United often end with only a few goals scored. Only one of last seven fixtures between the teams ended with over 3.5 goals scored. Furthermore, four of those seven games ended with under 1.5 goals scored. The Red Devils are not as strong as the Citizens right now so they are likely to lean on their defensive line fully on Sunday. It could very well happen the team of Jose Mourinho would not score at all against the Sky Blues. Last tour Manchester United managed to score the crucial goal only on the last minutes of their game against Bournemouth. Manchester City on the other hand managed to keep their goal safe against such opponents as Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal before in the league. It`s worth noting that the team of Pep Guardiola tried to play safe in all of those games. Thereby there were under 2.5 goals scored in all of them. It is likely that there will be only a few goals scored between the Citizens and the Red Devils on Sunday too.
Prediction for the match: Under 3.5 goals scored.
