Burnley play host to Manchester United on Saturday evening in a clash between two teams that are in desperate need of points. City need the three points in order to keep the pressure on league leaders Chelsea while Burnley are desperate to gather at least a point in their battle for survival in the premier League.
Two weeks ago Liverpool defeated Manchester City 2-1 but the Citizens bounced back with a 2-0 win over Leicester City. They currently are five points behind leaders Chelsea but the Blues have a game in hand. Manuel Pellegrini might change his squad selection considering that his team face a decisive Champions League match at Barcelona on Wednesday. However, he will surely have in mind the upset that Burnley produced at the Etihad Stadium in December. Back then the Clarets pulled off an amazing comeback from two goals down to snatch a point and even came close to winning the match.
Since then Burnley have not been doing particularly well though, they are without victory in seven matches and are currently 19th in the league table. Moreover, the next fixtures are quite tough for the Clarets: a trip to Southampton and then home games against Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal. Dean Marney and Kevin Long remain injured for the home side while Manchester City will have Samir Nasri available again but he might be rested for next week's Champions League clash.
Probable line-ups:
Burnley: Heaton - Trippier, Keane, Shackell, Mee - Kightly, Jones, Arfield, Boyd - Barnes, Ings
Man City: Hart - Zabaleta, Kompany, Mangala, Clichy - Silva, Fernando, Toure, Navas - Aguero, Bony
My prediction: Man City to win 2-0.
Here are the odds for the match at Bet365:
Burnley win - 13/2 Draw - 4/1 Man City win - 4/9
sharpe
9 years ago
Well many people including me, were thinking before the season that Burnley had no chance to survive in the Premier League and that will probably be right in the end, but the newcomers are playing really decent football and deserve all the credit for that. They drew at 2-2 in the first game away with Man City so everything...
Well many people including me, were thinking before the season that Burnley had no chance to survive in the Premier League and that will probably be right in the end, but the newcomers are playing really decent football and deserve all the credit for that. They drew at 2-2 in the first game away with Man City so everything is possible.
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seculla
9 years ago
Manchester City will play this week against Barcelona on Camp Nou and from my point of view that will be mission impossible for them, but anything can happen. Despite this fact, I'm pretty sure that they will give everything to win today against Burnley because they need to keep a step with Chelsea, and now when Chelsea...
Manchester City will play this week against Barcelona on Camp Nou and from my point of view that will be mission impossible for them, but anything can happen. Despite this fact, I'm pretty sure that they will give everything to win today against Burnley because they need to keep a step with Chelsea, and now when Chelsea is out of Champions League they will dedicate on winning Premier League, so Manchester City must win this game if they want to stay in race for the trophy, and I think that they will.
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h34dhunt3r
9 years ago
Manchester City is huge favourite in this one, obliviously. Burnley is stuck in relagation zone, and it doesn't seems like they will get out of it. Considering that Chelsea has one game more to play till end of the season, and it's versus Leicester City, Manchester City has to win all their games until end of season and...
Manchester City is huge favourite in this one, obliviously. Burnley is stuck in relagation zone, and it doesn't seems like they will get out of it. Considering that Chelsea has one game more to play till end of the season, and it's versus Leicester City, Manchester City has to win all their games until end of season and hope for the best. Eight points advantage is huge, it requests Chelsea to lose 3 games or play 4 draws so teams could be equal. 2-2 like a charm My predicitons: - Result: 0:3 for Manchester City; - Man of the match: Sergio Aguero.
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