For the 10th matchday of the English Premier League, Manchester City welcomes Southampton to the Etihad Stadium.
City were victorious in last week's big Manchester City derby against United as they crushed them 6-3. A score that does her no justice since she missed many opportunities to score more goals and only when she relaxed did De Haag's team manage to show up and find the opportunity to score 3 goals. In the first half she was stormy and scored 4 times while halfway through the replay she had reached the score marker at 6-1.
This was City's 6th win in the league in a total of 8 games and they reached 20 points, one less than leaders Arsenal.
Midweek gave another performance, in the context of the 3rd matchday, he crushed Copenhagen 5-0. For another match she was stormy, she closed the half in front of the score with 3-0 while overall she had many more opportunities to reach the score index to even higher levels. This was her 3rd victory in as many matches and she has essentially secured her qualification to the round of 16 of the competition.
Southampton continue to struggle at the start of the league, losing 2-1 at home to Everton last week. After an unsightly first half, Hasenhalt's team took the lead in the first minutes of the replay but "managed" in the following minutes to concede two goals and find themselves behind in the score. Then she fought it having some good moments for the equalizer but she missed the final attempt and unfortunately did not get anything from the match.
This is how she experienced her 3rd consecutive defeat and the 5th overall in the league and at the end of the 8th matchday she was in 16th place with 7 points. A harvest that puts the team's coach in a very difficult position, who is very likely to sit the last match on the team's bench today.
A match that does not need much analysis as to which team will prevail. City fly from win to win and if they put intensity in their game they crush every opponent so the question today is how many goals they will score. Southampton are in bad shape and miraculously can't look competitive. I think that Guardiola's team will go strong to clear the three points from the first half and can score several times.
Tip: City Over 1,5 goals in the first half at odds of 2.20