Manchester United – Manchester City Prediction & Preview and Betting Tips (21.07.2017)

Prediction for Manchester United – Manchester City

Over 2.5 goals @ 1.80

Manchester United and Manchester City meet at NRG Stadium in a match for this phase of the International Champions Cup (North America). The history of recent direct confrontations is favorable to Manchester City, which has 4 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses in the last 9 games. The last direct confrontation between these two teams, on 27-04-2017, ended with a draw for (0-0).

Manchester United

With great expectations and excitement, Manchester United will make its debut in this edition of the International Champions Cup, hoping to achieve a positive result. The team arrives to this match after a victory with the LA Galaxy by (2-5). In the last 10 games played for all competitions, Manchester United won 4, tied 4 and lost 2. Their attack has regularly scored, scoring goals in 7 of the last 10 matches. In the last 20 matches for all competitions there is 1 period highlighted: he suffered 6 of his 13 goals in the minutes (76′-90 ‘).

Manchester United reach this match with a win over Salt Lake, 1-2, adding to the triumph followed in this preseason: Mkhitaryan and Lukaku scored the goals of the comeback. In this friendly against Manchester rivals coach José Mourinho must continue to alienate his team in a 4-3-3, privileging possession of the ball and organized attacks, especially through the corridors: Lingard and Mkhitaryan make up the wings of the Team of the “red devils.” It is important to note that Pogba is one of the main responsible for creating and organizing the offensive process, indicating that the Portuguese coach will not be able to count on Valencia, expelled in the last match.

Manchester City

Manchester City will play their first match in this edition of the International Champions Cup with the intention of conquering a positive result. In the last game that disputed, for the Premier League, gained to Watford by (0-5). In their last 10 matches Manchester City have 6 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. His attack has scored regularly, scoring goals in 9 of the last 10 games. In their games there is a tendency to have goals, since 52 of his last 58 parties have finished with More than 1.5 goals and 39 in 58 have finished with More than 2.5 goals. In 15 games, he suffered the first goal 4 times and never got the comeback.

Manchester City are starting their preparations for next season, their main objective being the Premier League in this season of 2017/2018. Usually coach Pep Guardiola plays in 4-3-3, privileging the possession of the ball and the attacks slowed, however, in this friendly against its greater rival, it will be expected that it plays of a more defensive way, since the adversary Is in a more advanced phase of preparation for the new preseason. Noting that the club set new interesting players, such as Kyle Walker, Bernardo Silva, Ederson and Douglas Luiz.