Arsenal vs Manchester City
England – Premier League
Date: Sunday, 15 December 2019
Kick-off at 16:30 UK/ 17:30 CET
Venue: Emirates Stadium (London).
Arsenal welcome Manchester City to the Emirates Stadium on Sunday afternoon and both teams have injury problems in defence ahead of the game.
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The Gunners are coming on the back of a disappointing 2-2 draw with Standard Liege in midweek, which have fueled in suggestions that Freddie Ljungberg should quickly be replaced. The Swede will now have a point to prove against one of the strongest teams in Europe this weekend.
Manchester City, on the other hand, remain among the upper echelons of Premier League football. But, unlike the last couple of season, the champions’ grip over the title is slowly slipping, with the 2-1 defeat to Manchester United last weekend leaving them 14 points behind Liverpool (17 after the Reds’ 2-0 win over Watford on Saturday). Pep Guardiola’s men cannot afford any more slip-ups.
Arsenal vs Manchester City Prediction Line-Ups
Arsenal vs Manchester City Head-to-head (h2h)
Teams Arsenal Manchester City played so far 45 matches.
Arsenal won 22 direct matches. Manchester City won 15 matches. 8 matches ended in a draw. On average in direct matches both teams scored a 2.96 goals per Match.
Arsenal vs Manchester City Prediction
Arsenal in actual season average scored 2.12 goals per match. In 15 (93.75%) matches played at home was total goals (team and opponent) Over 1.5 goals. In 14 (87.50%) matches in season 2019 played at home was total goals (team and opponent) Over 2.5 goals.
Manchester City average scored 2.82 goals per match in season 2019. In 14 (93.33%) matches played away was total goals (team and opponent) Over 1.5 goals. In 12 (80.00%) matches played away team was total goals (team and opponent) Over 2.5 goals.
Team news
Arsenal are without Hector Bellerin and Dani Ceballos (both hamstring), as well as Rob Holding (knee), Kieran Tierney (dislocated shoulder) and Granit Xhaka (concussion).
But Nicolas Pepe is available having recovered from a blow to the knee.
David Silva is a big doubt for Man City and has not trained this week after sustaining a knock in the derby defeat by Manchester United.
John Stones (hamstring) and Sergio Aguero (muscular) are ruled out, but Pep Guardiola has confirmed no other injury concerns.
Match officials
Referee: Paul Tierney. Assistants: Constantine Hatzidakis, Harry Lennard. Fourth official: Andre Marriner. VAR: Chris Kavanagh. Assistant VAR: Sian Massey-Ellis.