Leeds United v Manchester City - KO- 17.30 pm UK time Saturday 3rd October 2020 - Premier League Match Preview and MDT | Vital Football

Leeds United v Manchester City - KO- 17.30 pm UK time Saturday 3rd October 2020 - Premier League Match Preview and MDT

Buzz Lightyear

Alert Team
Beware of the Banana Skin
City will be travelling over the pennines up the M62 to visit Leeds at Elland Road recently promoted to the Premier and doing well so far coached by Pep's good friend Beelzebub, who has done miracles to get this team up. Looking at the referees appointments for this game, there will be penalties if the slightest misdemeanour in the City box happens there is an Agenda and like Mulder and Scully say, 'The truth is out there'. Although denied by the Officials.
City's injury list is getting shorter although we did have a scare with Laporte in the Burnley match and thank goodness he is ok.

City Team News
Oleksandr Zinchenko
will miss up to another three weeks following an injury setback in training. Sergio Aguero (knee), Joao Cancelo (foot), and Gabriel Jesus (muscular) will all miss the trip to Leeds.

Ilkay Gundogan and John Stones missed the midweek game with Burnley and are unlikely to feature.

Match Facts
This is the first competitive meeting between the teams since 2013, when City won 4-0 at home in an FA Cup tie.

The most recent encounter at Elland Road ended 2-1 to Leeds in the Premier League in March 2004.

Manchester City have beaten Leeds in only two of the seven Premier League away fixtures, losing five times.

City could lose successive league fixtures for the first time since December 2018.

We have won three successive Premier League away matches, by an aggregate score of 12-1.

City's solitary defeat in their past 31 top-flight meetings with promoted teams came at Norwich in September last year (W25, D5).

We let in five goals against Leicester last time out, matching the total tally they had conceded in the previous 11 league games.

It was the first time a Pep Guardiola team had conceded five times - in his 686th match as a manager - and the first time in 12 years that City had let in five goals. It does not mention the last time we conceded three penalties in the same match or the quickness of the referee to award them.

Guardiola is undefeated in three previous meetings with Marcelo Bielsa, when the pair were in charge of Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao respectively (W2, D1).

Kevin De Bruyne has been directly involved in 35 Premier League goals (14 goals, 21 assists) since the start of last season, two more than any other player during that period.

Beat the Pep
Ederson
Walker Laporte Dias Mendy
Fernandinho, De Bruyne, Sterling, Torres, Rodri, Foden

Berti : - Steffen, Bernardo, Mahrez, Ake, Garcia, Delap, Doyle

Match Officials
Referee:
Mike Dean
Assistant Referees: Ian Hussin and Darren Cann
Fourth Official: Anthony Taylor
Video Assistant Referee: Peter Bankes
Additional Video Assistant Referee: Sian Massey-Ellis


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Also posted in the Tactics Board thread

Ederson Walker Mendy Dias Laporte Rodri Foden De Bruyne B Silva Torres Sterling

Ake Harwood-Bellis Fernie Palmer Delap Mahrez
 
XI | Ederson, Walker, Dias, Laporte, Mendy, Rodrigo, De Bruyne (C), Foden, Mahrez, Sterling, Torres
SUBS | Steffen, Stones, Bernardo, Ake, Fernandinho, Delap, Palmer