Comments and predictions for Man City vs Southampton: One-sided match

Manchester City will aim to move top of the Premier League table when they host struggling Southampton at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

The two teams will meet for the first time since April 2023, when Erling Haaland scored twice in Man City's 4-1 win at St Mary's.

Latest Man City vs Southampton squad information

Manchester City will have to cope without Jack Grealish (injury) and Jeremy Doku (muscle), the latest names to join the club's growing injury list, which includes Rodri (ACL), Oscar Bobb (broken leg), Kevin De Bruyne (muscle) and Kyle Walker (knee).

Guardiola is unlikely to make many changes to his squad for Saturday's game given his depleted squad, but is expected to recall several key stars, including Ederson, Josko Gvardiol and Mateo Kovacic.

After scoring once and assisting twice in the past week, Matheus Nunes could be rewarded with a starting spot in a stopgap role on the left, with Savinho on the right and both Phil Foden and Bernardo Silva operating in attacking midfield behind striker Haaland.

For Southampton, Ryan Fraser (suspension), Gavin Bazunu (Achilles), Ross Stewart (muscle) and William Smallbone (hamstring) are all unavailable, while Yukinari Sugawara (unspecified injury) is a doubt after leaving the pitch early against Leicester.

However, the team could welcome back Jack Stephens, who has completed a three-match suspension and is likely to join Jan Bednarek and former Man City player Taylor Harwood-Bellis in central defence.

Joe Aribo could once again combine with Flynn Downes and Mateus Fernandes in midfield, while young talent Tyler Dibling is likely to feature in attack alongside striker Cameron Archer, who has scored twice in his last two Premier League games.

Latest expected lineup for Man City vs Southampton

Manchester City:

Ederson; Stones, Dias, Gvardiol; Lewis, Kovacic; Savinho, Bernardo, Foden, Nunes; Haaland

Southampton:

Ramsdale; Stephens, Bednarek, Harwood-Bellis; Walker-Peters, Aribo, Downes, Fernandes, Manning; Dibling, Archer

Latest Man City vs Southampton football review

After having to wait until the last minute to secure all three points in a 2-1 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers last weekend, Manchester City eased to a 5-0 home win over Sparta Prague in the Champions League on Wednesday night.

Phil Foden opened the scoring for the home side in the third minute, before three goals in 10 minutes of the second half put them in control. Erling Haaland scored twice, including a brilliant bicycle volley, sandwiched in by a John Stones header, before Matheus Nunes – a standout performer – added a fifth from the penalty spot in the final minute.

Pep Guardiola's side climbed to third place in the 36-team UCL standings with seven points from their first three games, and they also became the first team in European Cup/Champions League history to go 26 games unbeaten in the competition, breaking the previous record held by Manchester United (25 games).

A trip to Sporting Lisbon on matchday four is planned for early November, but City must now turn their attention back to the Premier League, where they are the only team yet to lose after eight games. Currently second on 17 points, the Citizens will move top of the table with a win at Southampton, before leaders Liverpool face third-placed Arsenal on Sunday.

Man City, who are enjoying the longest unbeaten run in Premier League history (31 games), will be confident of victory this Saturday having won 10 of their last 13 meetings with Southampton, while they are unbeaten in 12 meetings with Southampton at the Etihad (10 wins, 2 draws).

Southampton manager Russell Martin on 21 September 2024

For the first time in the history of England's top flight, four teams have failed to win any of their first eight games, and one of them is Southampton, who have drawn one and lost seven since being promoted from the Championship last season.

Saints looked to be on course for their first three points of the season against Leicester City last weekend, after Cameron Archer and Joe Aribo gave them a two-goal lead in the first half. However, a stunning second-half comeback from Leicester, including a 98th-minute winner, turned things around and they came away from St Mary's with a 3-2 win.

Southampton have now gone 21 Premier League games without a win (D5 L16) and although pressure is mounting on manager Russell Martin, the club's hierarchy are said to have no immediate plans to part ways with the 38-year-old.

Sitting 19th in the Premier League table with just one point, but just three points adrift of safety, Southampton head into Saturday's game aiming to avoid going winless in their opening nine games of a season since 1998-99 (nine games).

Getting a positive result against Man City will be a tough task for Southampton, as they have won just one of their last 14 Premier League meetings with the Citizens - a 1-0 home win in July 2020 - while their last triumph at the Etihad was in April 2004 when they won 3-1 under former manager Paul Sturrock.

Man City vs Southampton score prediction

Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Man City vs Southamptonas follows:

• Sportsmole:Man City 3-1 Southampton

• WhoScore:Man City 3-0 Southampton
• Our newspaper predicts:Man City 4-1 Southampton

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