{"id":1993,"date":"2021-01-12T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogv2.highbet.com\/aston-villa-vs-manchester-city-match-preview\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:50:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:50:47","slug":"aston-villa-manchester-city-match-preview-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/aston-villa-manchester-city-match-preview-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa vs Manchester City \u2013 Premier League Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tough challenge for the Lions!<\/p>\n<p>Tonight Aston Villa will have a very difficult mission. Namely, they welcome the best goal-scoring team in the league at Villa Park. Manchester City is definitely focused to jump over the first-standing Arsenal. The Sky Blues are only 2 points behind the Gunners. So tonight there is no doubt that Man City will bring their full capacity in order to win their road game in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa FC is in a difficult position at the moment. The Lions are placed in the 19th place in the Premier League, with only 1 victory on their account. Unfortunately, besides winning against Everton (2:1), they lost against Bournemouth (2:0), Crystal Palace (3:1), West Ham (0:1), and Arsenal (2:1). So tonight Steven Gerrard must bring a quality tactical approach and highly motivated squad in order to avoid losing against the tough crew from Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City FC on the other hand so far managed to win 4 duels, followed by 1 draw outcome. However, the Sky Blues are definitely a goal-scoring machine. Proof of this is their 19 goals after 5 games. They managed to beat West Ham (0:2), Bournemouth (4:0), Crystal Palace (4:2), and Nottingham Forest (6:0). Their only tied game was against Newcastle with a final score of 3:3. By the way, last season Man City won twice against Aston Villa by 1:2 and 3:2. So tonight Pep Guardiola will set another attacking formation and decisively go for the victory against Villa.<\/p>\n<p>Will not play:<\/p>\n<p>For Aston Villa: Diego Carlos.<\/p>\n<p>For Manchester City: Laporte A.; Mendy B.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking forward to another goal-scoring show. The favorite for the victory of the match will be the visiting squad, Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Our prediction: Market (FIRST TEAM TO SCORE) <strong>Tip: MANCHESTER CITY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So tune in tonight and watch this interesting Premier League duel and witness who\u2019s going to play better football at Villa Park and end up as the winners.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <strong><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/promotions\">go ahead<\/a><\/strong> and check out highbet\u2019s <strong><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/prematch\">betting offer<\/a><\/strong> for this match!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tough challenge for the Lions! Tonight Aston Villa will have a very difficult mission. Namely, they welcome the best goal-scoring team in the league at Villa Park. Manchester City is definitely focused to jump over the first-standing Arsenal. The Sky Blues are only 2 points behind the Gunners. So tonight there is no doubt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6699,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/6699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highbet.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}