Manchester City vs West Brom Prediction and Football Tips
Premier League football tips – Manchester City vs West Brom prediction
City will be down after being the third English team to be knocked out in the round of 16 this year and the fourth overall, but they need to concentrate on the league now and must get back to winning ways. West Brom have had a full week to recover after their good 1-0 win at home to Stoke last Saturday, but will be without ‘keeper Ben Foster, who has sustained a bad knee injury and will be out for a month.
West Brom have scored an average of 1.3 goals per game over the last 10 matches, whilst Manchester City have an average of 1.7. Both sides have conceded an average of 1 goal per game in their last 10. These stats would suggest that there may not be a lot of goals in this one, but City will be confident at home and it could all come down to goal difference, so they’ll understand the need to win big.
If we take a look at an interesting stat which is out of the last 10 games, how many have seen more than 2.5 goals involved, we see that West Brom have had 5 games and Manchester City have had 4. This suggests that we could be treated to a goal fest.
The last time that the two sides met was on Boxing Day and it saw City run out winners with a 3-1 victory. Despite having only 48% possession, you could argue that West Brom dominated the game as they had a massive 18 shots, but only 6 were on target and they didn’t score until late on in the 87th minute.
Manchester City will be very confident of getting all 3 points at home and after their shock 1-0 defeat to Burnley in the league last week, they will need to if they hope to amplify the pressure on the league leaders.
We could get a few goals in this one.