Manchester City vs Manchester United
England – Premier League
Date: Saturday, 7 December 2019
Kick-off at 17:30 UK/ 18:30 CET
Venue: Etihad Stadium (Manchester).
Manchester United will be looking to close in on the top four with a positive result against Manchester City at the Etihad on Saturday evening.
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Manchester City enters the game, after the recent victory accomplished by the heavenly team under the leadership of Spanish coach Pep Guardiola, at the expense of Burnley with four goals against one goal.
Man Utd head to the Etihad sitting sixth in the Premier League table – eight points behind fourth placed Chelsea – so they desperately need a positive result against City to stay in touch with the top four.
Prediction Line-Ups:
Manchester City vs Manchester United Head-to-head (h2h)
Teams Manchester City Manchester United played so far 44 matches.
Manchester City won 17 direct matches. Manchester United won 20 matches. 7 matches ended in a draw. On average in direct matches both teams scored a 2.84 goals per Match.
Manchester City vs Manchester United Prediction
Manchester City in actual season average scored 2.85 goals per match. In 12 (100.00%) matches played at home was total goals (team and opponent) Over 1.5 goals. In 9 (75.00%) matches in season 2019 played at home was total goals (team and opponent) Over 2.5 goals.
Manchester United average scored 1.57 goals per match in season 2019. In 8 (61.54%) matches played away was total goals (team and opponent) Over 1.5 goals. In 5 (38.46%) matches played away team was total goals (team and opponent) Over 2.5 goals.
Team news
Man City welcome back Oleksandr Zinchenko from a knee injury but Pep Guardiola is unsure whether the left-back is fit enough to start.
Sergio Aguero is still injured and remains unavailable, as do Aymeric Laporte and Leroy Sane.
Anthony Martial is expected to be fit enough to make the Man Utd squad having missed the win over Spurs.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer thinks Paul Pogba will return before the end of the year but is likely to miss this match along with Eric Bailly, Tim Fosu-Mensah and Diogo Dalot.
Match officials
Referee: Anthony Taylor. Assistants: Gary Beswick, Adam Nunn. Fourth official: Mike Dean. VAR: Michael Oliver. Assistant VAR: Marc Perry.