📊 Form Guide

Manchester City

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Manchester City enter this match following on from a 1-1 Premier League draw against Bournemouth.

In that match, Manchester City managed 55% possession and 14 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. The only player to score for Manchester City was Erling Haaland (95'). For their opponents, Bournemouth had 10 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Eli Junior Kroupi (39') was the scorer for Bournemouth.

Manchester City have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, netting in each and every one of their last 6 games.

They’ve managed to rack up 13 during that period and have conceded a total of 5.

Going into this encounter, Manchester City have not been beaten in their last 17 league matches at home. It really has been a fortress.

Aston Villa

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Aston Villa come into this match following on from a 0-3 Europa League win to defeat Freiburg in their last game.

In that match, Aston Villa managed 49% possession and 17 shots at goal with 6 on target. For Aston Villa, the scorers were Youri Tielemans (41'), Emiliano Buendía (45') and Morgan Rogers (58'). On the other side, Freiburg had 4 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

Indicating their fondness for productive encounters, we’ve had goals 20 times in the previous six matches in which Aston Villa have sent out their troops, making it an average of 3.33 goals each clash. Their opponents have hit 7 of this grand total. We shall soon see whether or not that trend will end up being sustained here.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Aston Villa:

• haven't beaten Manchester City in games played away from home for the previous 15 league games. What a horrible run of results.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 6 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head duels going back to 12/02/2023, there has been little to separate the clubs with Manchester City winning 3 of those games, Aston Villa 3 and 0 being drawn in normal time.

A sum of 17 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 10 for The Citizens and 7 being from The Villans. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.

The previous league fixture featuring these sides was Premier League match day 9 on 26/10/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Aston Villa 1-0 Manchester City.

In that match, Aston Villa managed 47% possession and 9 shots on goal with 3 on target. Their only player to score was Matty Cash (19').

Manchester City had 18 shots on goal with 4 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Michael Oliver.

ℹ️ Team News: Manchester City

In our view, The Citizens will possibly opt for a 4-1-4-1 formation for this one, utilising Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matheus Nunes, John Stones, Marc Guehi, Nico O'Reilly, Bernardo Silva, Antoine Semenyo, Rayan Cherki, Phil Foden, Jeremy Doku and Erling Haaland.

📋 Team News: Aston Villa

We’re of the thinking that The Villans seem likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation with a starting lineup of Marco Bizot, Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Tyrone Mings, Ian Maatsen, Lamare Bogarde, Amadou Onana, Jadon Sancho, Ross Barkley, Morgan Rogers and Tammy Abraham.

✨ Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Aston Villa should be able to get a goal against this Manchester City side, but that probably shouldn’t be enough to prevent defeat.

We’re going for a 2-1 win for Manchester City by the conclusion of the game. We’ll have to see what happens.

Lucas Pereira, 18:04 23/05/2026