Premier League: Manchester City vs Swansea preview

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December 11th, 2015
Back Premier League: Manchester City vs Swansea preview

Manchester City will be looking to get back to winning ways when they host managerless Swansea City at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. The Swans have sacked Garry Monk this week after a poor run of results. It's interesting that Swansea lead the overall head-to-head record with 18 wins and 3 draws out of 28 matches. Recent history does favour Man City though, the Citizens have lost just one of the last 10 direct encounters and have won all the last four with 12 goals scored in the process.

Man City are now three points behind surprise leaders Leicester City due to some patchy form lately. They have won three of their last seven matches, but they did finish top of their Champions League group this week and also secured a place in the League Cup semi-finals. In midweek they beat Borussia Moenchengladbach 4-2, regaining some confidence after last weekend's 2-0 loss at Stoke City. Vincent Kompany and Sergio Aguero will be unavailable, but Martin Demichelis should make his return from injury.

Swansea have won just one of their last eleven matches, a poor run that has lead to Garry Monk's sacking. Alan Curtis will lead the team as caretaker manager until a permanent solution is found, there isn't much pressure for a result at the Etihad but they players will probably feel that they have something to prove. Frank Tabanou is the only injury concern for the Swans, but Curtis will probably make quite a few changes considering the team's terrible results of late.

Probable line-ups:

Man City: Hart - Sagna, Otamendi, Mangala, Kolarov - Fernandinho, Toure, De Bruyne, Silva, Sterling - Bony

Swansea: Fabianski - Naughton, Bartley, Williams, Taylor - Shelvey, Ki, Montero, Sigurdsson, Ayew - Gomis

My prediction: Manchester city to win 4-1.

Here are the odds for the match at Bet365:

Man City win - 1.30 Draw - 6.00 Swansea win - 11.00

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