Manchester City vs Wolves Premier League match
preview
Premier League clean
sheets have been hard to come by for Manchester City of late but the
pressure is on them to claim all three points on Monday night.
City
have the best home record in the league this season, winning 10 of their 11
matches at the Etihad. They have also scored at least 10 more goals than any
other side at home.
Wolves
will be buoyed by recent wins over Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool, but a
challenging trip to the Etihad may be too tall an order for Nuno Espirito
Santo’s side.
Manchester City vs
Wolves Premier League match preview
Manchester City host
Wolves at the Etihad on Monday night.
City looked to have
turned a corner after back-to-back defeats in December threatened to derail
City’s title hopes. Since then, City have won both their Premier League
matches, including a crucial 2-1 win over league leaders Liverpool.
The Reds’ narrow 1-0
win over Brighton on Saturday puts the pressure right back on City, however. A
win for City on Monday night would restore the gap at the top of the table to
four points.
Wolves won four league
matches in December, including a 3-1 win at Spurs, but began their 2019 with a
2-0 home defeat to Crystal Palace. West Ham’s win over Arsenal on Saturday saw
Wolves drop to 10th ahead of Monday’s match.
Newly-promoted Wolves
held champions Manchester City to a 1-1 draw in the reverse fixture at Molineux
in August to provide one of the early shocks of the 2018/19 campaign. Willy
Boly opened the scoring for Wolves before Aymeric Laporte equalised for the
visitors.
Wolves and City have
met nine times in the Premier League with City winning five of those matches to
Wolves’ two. Wolves have never beaten City away in the competition.
Cup Delights
Both sides have
enjoyed successful cup ties in the new year.
Wolves knocked
Liverpool out the FA Cup third round last week. Raul Jimenez and Ruben Nevez
both netted in a memorable 2-1 win, albeit against a heavily rotated Reds side.
Manchester City have
scored 16 goals in their last two matches. Guardiola’s side shipped seven past
Rotherham in the FA Cup before thrashing League One outfit Burton Albion 9-0 in
their League Cup semi-final first leg tie.
Gabriel Jesus scored
five goals across those two matches and is still unlikely to start on Monday.
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