After City slipped up earlier this week, we look ahead to Saturday’s crucial Premier League clash with our Manchester City vs Brentford prediction and preview.
Manchester City vs Brentford: The Key Stats
Overwhelming favourites to claim maximum points, Manchester City will start this must-win game with a 67.8% chance of success; the Opta supercomputer rates Brentford’s hopes at just 15%. Since losing their first top-flight home fixture this season, Man City have gone 15 unbeaten at the Etihad Stadium (W12 D3), scoring at least twice on 13 occasions. However, across nine previous Premier League meetings with Brentford, City’s average of 1.4 goals per game is the lowest against any opponent they’ve faced under Pep Guardiola.Only victory will do when Manchester City return to action on Saturday evening, as their title quest continues at home to European hopefuls Brentford.
Within 13 minutes of madness, City let their positive momentum slip on Monday evening, giving league leaders Arsenal some precious breathing space.
Though Igor Thiago and Phil Foden has previously scored seven goals against Brentford but can’t even get a look-in at the moment. Being named in the squad is a minor achievement, with City’s absence list starting to shrink. Josko Gvardiol is still unavailable, while only Rodri and Ruben Dias remain doubts.
After the long-awaited return of Josh Dasilva last week, the Bees hope to have Jordan Henderson back from a much shorter layoff.
Manchester City vs Brentford Head-to-Head
Manchester City are unbeaten in six games against Brentford, dating back to May 2023.
The Bees have lost three of four Premier League away matches against Man City, with the exception being a last-gasp 2-1 win in November 2022.
City have won both prior meetings this season: October’s reverse fixture and an EFL Cup tie two months later.
Manchester City vs Brentford Prediction
By a significant margin, the Opta supercomputer makes Manchester City favourites for victory, with a 67.8% probability of prevailing.
Brentford succeeded in far fewer of the 10,000 pre-match simulations, and their hopes of success are rated at a modest 15%.
Manchester City vs Brentford Predicted Lineups
Manchester City: Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matheus Nunes, Abdukodir Khusanov, Nico O’Reilly, Nico González, Bernardo Silva, Antoine Semenyo, Rayan Cherki, Jérémy Doku, Erling Haaland.
Head coach: Pep Guardiola
Brentford: Caoimhin Kelleher, Michael Kayode, Sven van den Berg, Nathan Collins, Keane Lewis-Potter, Mathias Jensen, Yehor Yarmoliuk, Dango Ouattara, Mikkel Damsgaard, Kevin Schade, Igor Thiago.
Head coach: Keith Andrews
Opta Power Rankings
The Opta Power Rankings are a global team ranking system that assigns an ability score to over 13,000 domestic football teams on a scale between zero and 100, where zero is the worst-ranked team in the world, and 100 is the best team in the world.
Ahead of kick-off this weekend, here is the Opta Power Ranking for both sides.
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