Manchester City vs Brighton: Last 5 Results, Prediction and Live Stream

📏 Form Guide

Manchester City will be looking for an improved result here after a 1-0 Premier League loss in their previous game against Liverpool.

In that match, Manchester City managed 64% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. On the other side, Liverpool had 13 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Mohamed Salah (76') was the scorer for Liverpool.

Matches featuring Manchester City have often been absorbing affairs recently with a lot of goalmouth action anticipated. Over their past half dozen clashes alone, a total of 22 goals have gone in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 18 of these accredited to Manchester City. Having said that, time will tell if the trend shall be replicated in this next match or not.

In the game prior to this, Brighton drew 0-0 in the Premier League tie with Nottingham Forest.

In that game, Brighton & Hove Albion had 70% possession and 19 attempts on goal with 7 on target. At the other end, Nottingham Forest had 3 shots at goal with 0 on target.

Looking at their form, and Brighton have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 10 goals overall. Defensively, Brighton & Hove Albion have seen their frailties exposed.

Checking on their past head to head meetings going back to 31/08/2019 shows us that Manchester City have won 5 of these & Brighton 1, with the number of drawn results standing at 0.

There were also goals galore in those games, with 23 in total at an average of 3.83 goals per meeting.

John Stones (Hamstring Injury), Kalvin Phillips (Shoulder Injury) and Kyle Walker (Groin Injury) won’t be playing for Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola.

It seems likely that The Citizens will possibly kick off with a 4-3-3 formation for the game with Ederson Moraes, Joao Cancelo, Ruben Dias, Aymeric Laporte, Nathan Ake, Kevin De Bruyne, Rodri, Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden, Erling Braut Haaland and Jack Grealish.

From a largely full-strength group of players, there is just the sole fitness issue for the Brighton manager Roberto De Zerbi to contend with. Jakub Moder (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) won’t be playing here.

There’s a good chance that The Seagulls might play in a 3-4-2-1 lineup, giving starts to Robert Sanchez, Joel Veltman, Lewis Dunk, Adam Webster, Tariq Lamptey, Pervis Estupinan, Alexis Mac Allister, Moises Caicedo, Pascal Gross, Leandro Trossard and Deniz Undav.

In this game, Brighton & Hove Albion won’t find it easy at all to find the back of the net against a Manchester City lineup who appear set to boss this game in attack, midfield and defence.

We are anticipating a commanding 3-0 winning margin for Manchester City when the referee blows the final whistle.

Looking at what the bookmakers’ view is of this game on the 90 min. result market, putting your money on Manchester City can be had for 1.2, betting on a drawn result is 7.2 & staking on the winner to be Brighton & Hove Albion can get you 13.5. Those are the best returns offered as of now.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match.