We look forward to Saturday’s Premier League sport on the Etihad Stadium with our Manchester Metropolis vs Tottenham prediction and preview. Can the champions get again on observe?
Manchester Metropolis vs Tottenham: The Key Insights
Manchester Metropolis are the favourites with Opta supercomputer, victorious in 59.5% of data-led sims.
The reigning Premier League champions have misplaced their final 4 video games in all competitions.
Metropolis have gained simply three of their final 10 Premier League video games towards Tottenham.
Manchester Metropolis are in uncharted territory forward of Tottenham visiting the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.
Pep Guardiola’s all-conquering aspect – the four-time reigning Premier League champions – have misplaced their final 4 matches in all competitions.
It’s the first time in Guardiola’s managerial profession he has misplaced 4 straight video games in all competitions, whereas it’s the first time Metropolis have misplaced that many in a row since 2006, after they misplaced six on the bounce underneath Stuart Pearce.
It ought to nonetheless be a lift for Metropolis followers that Guardiola is reportedly set to signal an extension on the Etihad Stadium, although.
A 2-1 EFL Cup defeat to Spurs on the finish of October kick-started Metropolis’s poor type, and defeats to Bournemouth, Sporting CP and Brighton adopted.
With Liverpool persevering with their high quality type underneath Arne Slot, Metropolis head into the weekend 5 factors behind the Reds.
Although with Liverpool not again in motion till Sunday, Metropolis can put the stress again on by seeing off a Spurs crew who surprisingly misplaced 2-1 at house to Ipswich City earlier than the worldwide break.
Saturday’s conflict sees two of the league’s prime three scoring groups this season go head-to-head. Spurs (23) have netted essentially the most objectives within the prime tier, with Metropolis (22) joint-second with Brentford.
Metropolis have registered the best anticipated objectives (22.3) within the league, with Ange Postecoglou’s crew recording the second-highest (21.7). These groups have had 401 pictures between them throughout 22 matches this season, so count on some leisure.
Metropolis have often taken some time to get getting in current seasons, however they’ve by no means fairly appeared so in need of type at this stage of a marketing campaign.
Guardiola is on the longest dropping run of his whole profession. Although they’re the one crew to have scored in each Premier League sport up to now this season, Metropolis have misplaced their final two (2-1 versus Bournemouth and Brighton). They final misplaced three in a row within the competitors in February/March 2016, a run that included a house defeat to Tottenham.
The lack of Rodri to a season-ending knee damage has not helped. Because the begin of final season, Metropolis have performed 13 league video games with out Rodri and misplaced 5 of them. Their win price with out the Spaniard within the aspect in that point is 53.8%, whereas with him within the crew it rises to 77.8%.
Spurs, in the meantime, have solely gained two of their final 11 Premier League away video games (D2 L7), successful simply as soon as in 5 on the highway this time period. Because the begin of this spell in March, no crew have misplaced extra Premier League away video games than Tottenham (seven).
Postecoglou won’t be altering his strategy for this sport, although. Spurs look to get ahead at any alternative, and the statistics again this up.
As a crew, Tottenham have made extra off-the-ball runs into the field than every other aspect within the Premier League this season (612), with Dominic Solanke having essentially the most amongst gamers (138).
Spurs have additionally had essentially the most pictures contained in the field of any Premier League aspect this time period (134).
Dejan Kulusevski might be essential if Spurs are to have any success towards a Metropolis defence that has been unusually leaky this season. The Swede has created essentially the most probabilities general (30) and from open play (25) within the Premier League this time period.
Manchester Metropolis vs Tottenham Head-to-Head
Man Metropolis have gained simply three of their final 10 Premier League video games towards Tottenham (D2 L5) and wish to win consecutive conferences with them for the primary time since April 2019.
Tottenham have scored at the very least twice in every of their final three Premier League away video games towards Metropolis, successful 3-2 in 2021-22, dropping 4-2 in 2022-23 and drawing 3-3 final season. No crew has ever scored a number of objectives in 4 consecutive Premier League visits to the Etihad.
Beneath Guardiola (since 2016-17), Metropolis have misplaced extra Premier League video games (six) and conceded extra Premier League objectives (22) towards Spurs than they’ve towards every other opponent.
Manchester Metropolis vs Tottenham Prediction
Man Metropolis are made the massive favourites by Opta’s supercomputer, which ranks their possibilities of victory at 59.5%.
Spurs’ win chance is 20.2%, whereas the probability of a draw that will nonetheless dent Metropolis’s title hopes is narrowly larger at 20.3%.
Manchester Metropolis vs Tottenham Predicted Lineups
Opta Energy Rankings
The Opta Energy Rankings are a worldwide crew rating system. They assign a capability rating to over 13,000 home soccer groups. This rating is on a scale between zero and 100, the place zero is the worst-ranked crew on this planet and 100 is the very best crew on this planet.
Forward of kick-off this weekend, right here is the Opta Energy Rating for either side.
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