Stoke City vs Manchester City
England – Premier League
Date: Monday, 12 March 2018
Kick-Off at 20:00 UK
Venue: Bet365 Stadium (Stoke-on-Trent).
Team News
For the visitors, Benjamin Mendy returned to training after a lengthy spell out suffering with crucial knee ligament damage but he remains a doubt for the game. Sterling and Fernandinho is expected to return to first-team action for Monday night’s clash against Stoke City. Fabian Delph should return after serving three-games domestic suspension.
For Stoke City, they will be without Mame Biram Diouf after he suffered a shoulder injury in Saturday’s game against Southampton. Lee Grant and Stephen Ireland both look unlikely to feature.
Predicted line-ups
Stoke City starting XI: Butland; Bauer, Zouma, Martins Indi, Stafylidis; Cameron; Shaqiri, Allen, Ndiaye, Choupo-Moting; Crouch
Manchester City starting XI: Ederson; Walker, Otamendi, Laporte, Zinchenko; De Bruyne, Gundogan, Silva; Sterling, Jesus, Sane
Opta stats
Stoke have kept a clean sheet in three of their last seven Premier League games against City, but have conceded 19 goals across the other four games in that time, including seven in the reverse fixture in October.
City haven't done the league double over Stoke since 1998-99, when they were in the third tier together.
Indeed, the Citizens have only won two of their nine Premier League trips to the Bet365 Stadium (D5 L2), though these have come in their last three visits there and both by a 4-1 scoreline.
Stoke City vs Manchester City: Head-to-head
The Potters can still remember the painful 7-2 defeat they’ve suffered in this term0s clash with Manchester City at Etihad Stadium.
The Citizens have dominated this match-up in the last couple of years winning three of last four meetings with Stoke City.
Nonetheless, Stoke have the positive H2H ration in home matches against the Citizens (22 wins to City’s 12).
Stoke City vs Manchester City: Bet Tips
Manchester City -1.5 handicap @ 1.65
Sergio Aguero to score anytime @ 1.66
