PREMIER LEAGUE FRIDAY: We preview Friday’s Premier League clash between WOLVES and MAN CITY at 7.45pm with a recommended BETDAQ bet and extended match stats.
WOLVES V MANCHESTER CITY
7.45pm After a hectic Boxing Day with nine fixture, we only have one Premier League game to enjoy on Friday night as Wolves host Manchester City. Many punters will be expecting a smooth away win here, but Wolves have been in good form this season and grinded out yet another win last weekend.
The match odds at the time of writing currently trade; Wolves 9.4, Manchester City 1.42 and the draw is 5.1. City managed to get back some ground on Leicester when beating them 3-1 at the weekend, but they still only sat in third at Christmas. They have responded well after a dodgy few weeks, but they do continue to concede goals. Their only recent clean sheet came against Arsenal, who have been very poor this season.
The 1.42 on City looks pretty short and laying those odds is certainly an option. We prefer to back over 2.5 goals though at 1.68. Wolves have had three of more goals in all of their last four fixtures in all competitions and they have conceded in three of those games. City have conceded in 12 of their last 13 games (the clean sheet v Arsenal) and we can only see goals here. We would have over 2.5 goals closer to 1.5 and we’re very happy with the 1.68 available.
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Over 2.5 goals at 1.68.
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MATCH STATS
- Having won the reverse fixture 2-0 at the Etihad in October, Wolves are looking to complete their first league double over Man City since 1999-00 in the second tier, and for the first time in the top-flight since 1960-61.
- Manchester City have only failed to score in one of their last 10 league games against Wolves, netting 21 goals in total. However, that blank did come in the reverse fixture in October (0-2).
- Wolves versus Manchester City will be the 100th Premier League game to be played on a Friday. The home side has won 48 of the previous 99 such games (D28 L23), giving Friday the best win rate for the host team on a specific day of the week in the competition (48.5%).
- Wolves have lost all three of their Premier League games played on a Friday, while Man City have lost just one of their eight such games (W4 D3).
- Wolves haven’t lost consecutive home league games since January, when they lost against Liverpool and Crystal Palace at Molineux.
- Manchester City have scored 50 goals in their 18 Premier League games this season – it’s the fifth occasion of a Premier League side scoring 50+ goals before the halfway point of the campaign, with the Citizens responsible for all of them (also in 2011-12, 2013-14, 2017-18 and 2018-19).
- Wolves have scored in each of their last 17 Premier League games but have not scored more than twice in any game in that run. In English top-flight history, only Brentford (21 games between October 1938-February 1939) have scored in more consecutive games without netting more than twice.
- Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has won 99 of his 132 Premier League games so far. A win against Wolves will see him break José Mourinho’s record for fewest number of games to reach 100 Premier League wins, with Mourinho doing so in 142 games.
- Wolves defender Conor Coady has played in every single minute of every Premier League game under Nuno Espirito Santo (56 games). In Premier League history, the only player to play more games and in every minute of a manager’s games in the competition is Mark Crossley under Frank Clark, who played every minute of Clark’s 97 games between 1994 and 1996.
- Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne has been directly involved in 19 goals in his last 19 Premier League starts (7 goals, 12 assists) and has more assists than any other player in the competition in 2019-20 (10).
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