Man City vs Arsenal Match Preview

Match info:

Man City vs Arsenal 

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium – Etihad Stadium

Date:  14th December

Kick-off time – 12:45 GMT+1

Barclays Premier League leaders Arsenal travel to the Etihad Stadium this Saturday afternoon to face 4th place Manchester City in what could be one of the most decisive games of the 2013/2014 season.


Recent form:

Man City – W D W W W W L

Arsenal – L D W W W W L

Man City have lost just 1 of their last 7 while Arsenal have lost 2 of their last 7.

Form

The Barclays Premier League table looks like this:

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 11 9 1 1 21 6 +15 28
2 Manchester City 11 7 2 2 22 13 +9 23
3 Chelsea 11 5 4 2 21 13 +8 19
4 Arsenal 11 5 4 2 18 12 +6 19
5 Nottingham Forest 11 5 4 2 15 10 +5 19
6 Brighton & Hov… 11 5 4 2 19 15 +4 19
7 Fulham 11 5 3 3 16 13 +3 18
8 Newcastle United 11 5 3 3 13 11 +2 18
9 Aston Villa 11 5 3 3 17 17 +0 18
10 Tottenham Hotspur 11 5 1 5 23 13 +10 16
11 Brentford 11 5 1 5 22 22 +0 16
12 AFC Bournemouth 11 4 3 4 15 15 +0 15
13 Manchester United 11 4 3 4 12 12 +0 15
14 West Ham United 11 3 3 5 13 19 -6 12
15 Leicester City 11 2 4 5 14 21 -7 10
16 Everton 11 2 4 5 10 17 -7 10
17 Ipswich Town 11 1 5 5 12 22 -10 8
18 Crystal Palace 11 1 4 6 8 15 -7 7
19 Wolverhampton Wanderers 11 1 3 7 16 27 -11 6
20 Southampton 11 1 1 9 7 21 -14 4

A win for Arsenal will extend their lead at the top to 8 points while a win for City will move them 2nd and to within 3 points of Arsenal.

Head-to-head

These two sides have met 35 times in recent years and Arsenal have come out on top most often.

History

The last 5 meetings between these two sides finished 1:3, 2:0, 1:1, 2:0 and 0:1.

Possible line-ups

Man City (4-4-2)

Pantilimon
Kolarov
Demichelis
Kompany
Zabaleta
Nasri
Fernandinho
Touré
Milner
Agüero
Negredo

 Arsenal (4-5-1)

Szczęsny
Gibbs
Mertesacker
Koscielny
Jenkinson
Ramsey
Arteta
Wilshere
Cazorla
Özil
Giroud

Bookmakers make Manchester City clear favourites to come out on top in this match.

Odds: Man City (5/6) Draw (11/4) Arsenal (15/4)Gamingtips Prediction – Man City 2:2 Arsenal 

Manchester City come into this tie after a very impressive 3:2 victory over Bayern Munich in the Champions League after going down 2:0 within 15 minutes.

Arsenal, on the other hand come into this tie after a trip to Italy that ended in a 2:0 defeat at the hands of Napoli.

Bacary Sagna and Lukas Podolski have both been struggling with a hamstring injury however they are expected to be available for this game.

Matija Nastasic will be unavailable for City however Stevan Jovetic is expected to return after suffering with a calf injury.

This game sees the best offense (Manchester City) take on the best defensive team in the league.

Manchester city have scored 41 goals in their opening 15 matches and lead the goals scored table.

Arsenal have conceded just 11 goals in 15 games giving them the best defensive record in the league.

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