EPL Matchday 2 : Star Match
What do you know, its already day two in the English Premier League. We having the two Manchester sides in top positions. Last week had Manchester United sweeping Chelsea aside, putting 4 goals pass the Blues. Let's take a look at the fixtures for this week.
Fixtures
Sat 17 Aug 2019
Arsenal 12:30 Burnley
Aston Villa 15:00 Bournemouth
Brighton 15:00 West Ham
Everton 15:00 Watford
Norwich 15:00 Newcastle
Southampton 15:00 Liverpool
Man City 17:30 Spurs
Sun 18 Aug 2019
Sheffield Utd 14:00 Crystal Palace
Chelsea 16:30 Leicester
Mon 19 Aug 2019
Wolves 20:00 Man Utd
Without a doubt, our Star Match for this week is Man City VS Spurs
Man City VS Spurs
Fresh from day 1 victories, these two sides face off, in what promises to be an exciting match for us this week. With Kane having found the next twice in the last match and Eriksen enjoying one of his best moments, that's not to add the fact that Sterling scored a hat-trick in the opening day. It's definitely going to be a cracker! You'd don't want to miss the action.
POSSIBLE LINEUP
MANCHESTER CITY: Ederson; Walker, Stones, Laporte, Zinchenko; Rodri, Bernardo Silva, De Bruyne; Mahrez, Sterling, Aguero.
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR: Lloris; Walker-Peters, Alderweireld, Sanchez, Rose; Winks, Ndombele, Sissoko, Eriksen; Lucas, Kane
Ahead of the match, let's take a look at some facts;
Opta stats
Manchester City has won the last four games against Tottenham Hotspur, but they've never won five consecutive games against them, in their 140th meeting.
Tottenham has taken only four points, from nine of their last games against the Citizens (W1 D1 L7)
Manchester City haven't lost their opening home match since 1989-90, they've gone 24 opening matches unbeaten (W16 D8 L0)
When conceding more than one goal, the Citizens have lost their last six Premier League matches, however when conceding not more than one goal, they are unbeaten in 83 Premier League matches, since their 0-1 loss at Liverpool in December 2016.
Spurs had more shots on Matchday 1 (31) than any other Premier League side. Christian Eriksen was involved in 18 of those efforts.
Sergio Aguero is one goal short on joint third for the most goals scored at a specific stadium. He's currently on 96 goals at the Etihad Stadium, and Alan Shearer scored 97 at St. James' Park.
Hat-trick hero Raheem Sterling, has been directly involved in six goals in his last six games against Spurs in all competition (5 goals, 1 assist), including scoring four in his last three games against them at the Etihad.
Kane ended his over 1,000 minutes goal drought in the month of August, with his brace against Aston Villa.
So with all of these facts who will you be placing your bets on?
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