Manchester City has been living in a rare environment since Monday, the Premier League accused him of financial irregularities and could be punished with the loss of points or even the category. A difficult context to continue competing but now Pep Guardiola’s team once again have a good chance to get back into the fight for the league title.
If the previous day City fell to Tottenham (1-0) a day after Arsenal did it against Everton (1-0), yesterday the leader released 1-1 at the Emirates against Brentford and the champion of the four in the last five editions of the Premier will come out ready against Unai Emery’s Aston Villa to reduce their deficit to three points. If they achieve this, the ‘citizens’ will be in a position to take the lead in the pending clash with the ‘gunners’ in London on Wednesday.
City have not received two consecutive defeats in the Premier League since December 2018 and want to speak on the field today but Aston Villa reappeared with Emery and, despite the defeat at Leicester (2-4), they have five wins in eight league games with the Basque.
The ‘villains’ drew in the first round at home (1-1) even with Steven Gerrard on the bench and will now try to take advantage of the tension that will be felt at the Etihad and the doubts of a City already there. suffered more losses (4) than all previous season (3).
Eight victories for Pep against Unai
Guardiola and Emery again staged a tactical duel, although Unai, as coach of Valencia or Arsenal, was never able to beat Pep in their matches against Barça and Manchester City. In 12 clashes between the two, 8 wins for the Catalan and 4 draws.
Guardiola first left Kevin De Bruyne on the bench against Tottenham and, given the result, everyone is pointing to the Belgian star as the starter again. Without him, Erling Haaland has no options and the Norwegian hopes to meet the goal again: at the Etihad he scored 18 of the 25 he scored in the Premier.
Emery trusted Coutinho
Philippe Coutinho does not start but Emery trusts him: “He works in training with a humility that is difficult to imagine in a player who has been at the top of football for many years. Because of this, he has an important value for me and to the team. Together we will try to help you bring out the best version of you”
Source: La Verdad
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