At 10 pm on December 19th, Beijing time, the 18th round of the 2021-2022 Premier League will start a focused battle. Manchester City heads to an away game against Newcastle United.
Confrontation record
The two teams had previously played against a total of 89 times in all competitions, and Manchester City had an advantage with a record of 47 wins, 19 draws and 23 losses. In the Premier League, Blue Moon also led the way with 26 wins, 8 draws and 8 losses in 42 clashes.
Highlight 1: Premier League Petroleum Derby duel between old and new local tyrants
The matchup between Manchester City and Newcastle can be called a big matchup between the new and old local tyrants in the Premier League. In 2008, Manchester City, which had a mediocre performance in the Premier League at the time, was acquired by the Abu Dhabi consortium. Later, Blue Moon recruited troops and successfully won the first Premier League championship in team history in the 2011-2012 season. In the last 10 years, Manchester City has won all the championships in England, and the Premier League has also won 5 crowns in 10 years. It can be said that it has created an era of its own. And Newcastle also ushered in the big wealthy man in mid-October this year. The Saudi Sovereign Fund Public Investment Fund and PCP Capital acquired all of Magpie’s equity. The transaction volume reached 305 million pounds. The Saudi Sovereign Fund Public Investment Fund’s assets About 430 billion U.S. dollars, they also surpassed the consortium behind Manchester City and Paris to become the richest boss in world football.
However, after the new local tyrants took over, because in the middle of the season, they only changed their head coaches. However, apart from winning Burnley, the Magpies have not tasted other victories. After 17 rounds of the Premier League, they only won. It was a victory and 10 points, and Norwich was at the bottom of the same point (because the goal difference ranked second from the bottom). Manchester City is at the top of the standings, with a difference of 31 points from Newcastle. This Premier League oil derby seems to have a very different loss.
Aspect 2: League 8-game winning streak hit the top league record in Wanglanyue
In the championship battle with Liverpool and Chelsea, Manchester City recently relied on a wave of 7-game winning streak to rise against the trend, and currently dominate the Reds with a one-point advantage to top the rankings. This time to go to the away game, Guardiola’s team goal is 8 consecutive victories. In the past 27 Premier League matches against Newcastle United, Manchester City have only lost one game. That was in January 2019, when they lost 1-2 away to their opponents. In addition, Manchester City have scored goals against the Magpies in 25 consecutive Premier League games. The last time they could not break Newcastle’s goal was 15 years ago in 2006. If they score this game, then Blue Moon will tie Arsenal. For the record of consecutive goals scored by the same opponent, the Arsenal has faced West Brom’s 26 consecutive Premier League games and broke the opponent’s goal.
However, Newcastle has remained unbeaten against the defending champion in the last 5 league home scenes (2 wins and 3 draws). They had previously completed 6 consecutive home scenes unbeaten against the defending champion from 1987 to 1996. This time they certainly hope to be able to block the invincible Manchester City, after all, the pressure to relegation is huge now. But Manchester City has a top-level league record waiting for them to create in this campaign, which is the record of the number of wins in a single calendar year for the English top-level league. Blue Moon has now won 33 Premier League games in 2021. If it scores three points in this campaign, it will beat the Red Army to create this new record.
Injury report
Newcastle United: Fernandez (injured), Dumet (injured), Lewis (injured), Saint Maxime (injured)
Manchester City: Torres (injured), Delap (injured), Walker (suspected), Mendy (banned), Bernardo Silva (suspicious)
Predicted starter
Newcastle United (433): 1-Dubravka/19-Manguillo, 5-Scheer, 6-Russels, 11-Ridge/28-Willock, 8-Shelway, 14-Hayden/ 7-Jollington, 9-Wilson, 24-Almiron
Manchester City (433): 31-Edson/27-Cancelo, 3-Ruben Dias, 14-Laporte, 11-Zinchenko/17-De Bruyne, 16-Rodri , 8-Gundoan/7-Stirling, 47-Foden, 10-GlarishReturn to Sohu to see more
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