All Manchester city posts on WhoScored.com Articles RSS

PSG, Bayern & Newcastle's Unbeaten Streaks Come to an End

by
PSG, Bayern & Newcastle's Unbeaten Streaks Come to an End This weekend saw some of the significant unbeaten streaks across Europe’s top five leagues come to an end. WhoScored’s regular weekly round-up highlights PSG’s shock home defeat to Nancy on Sunday evening, with the big-spending Ligue 1 leaders slipping up for the first time in thir...

Goodison Goals Among Likely Occurrences in the Premier League

by
Goodison Goals Among Likely Occurrences in the Premier League WhoScored.com looks ahead to this weekend's Premier League games, predicting a number of likely occurrences based on games gone by. While match-ups such as Chelsea-Arsenal standout for more obvious reasons, we analyse some eye-catching trends to give insight into how the points might be spread acros...

Balanced City Causing Power Shift in Manchester?

by
Balanced City Causing Power Shift in Manchester? Going into the weekend, the game that was billed across Europe as the biggest for more reasons than one certainly lived up to the expectations in what proved to be a real classic, though Manchester United fans may well refute that.The Champions' noisy neighbours had found their voice more than ever ...

Do City Now Have Have the Edge Over United?

by
Do City Now Have Have the Edge Over United? Sunday afternoon sees both Manchester clubs square up in the Premier League’s top of the table battle. Just two points separate City and United, with Roberto Mancini’s side currently edging their rivals into second place. A win would, of course, take Sir Alex Ferguson’s troops back...

Rotation, Rotation, Rotation: The Premier League's Tinkermen

by
Rotation, Rotation, Rotation: The Premier League's Tinkermen After Manchester United decided to rest the likes of Wayne Rooney, Javier Hernandez, Nani and Anderson in their fierce rival clash with Liverpool this weekend, WhoScored investigates the sides in the Premier League who are utilising their squad depth the most, and for very different reasons.We look ...

Unbeaten Sides Clash at Etihad with Villa Out for Revenge

by
Unbeaten Sides Clash at Etihad with Villa Out for Revenge While the red side of Manchester will be making the trip to Liverpool come Saturday, City are holding the fort and looking to protect their unbeaten run against a Villa side that can boast the same feat. However, while City's run has seen them drop just 2 points, Villa have drawn 5 matches, winning ...

Manchester City vs Wigan Key Battles

by
Manchester City vs Wigan Key Battles Man City go into this weekend’s home match with Wigan as overwhelming favourites after a superb start to the season. Joint-top with neighbours United after three games, Roberto Mancini’s side arrive on the back of a 5-1 away win at Spurs and given the sort of form they are currently show...

Manchester Hit Men Profit From Creative Class

by
Manchester Hit Men Profit From Creative Class The red and blue sides of Manchester have stamped their authority on the Premier League early this season with three successive victories. The exploits of strikers Wayne Rooney and Edin Dzeko, who top the scoring charts with 5 and 6 respectively, have been key to the rival sides' early success, with...

Bale and Silva to Shine at White Hart Lane

by
Bale and Silva to Shine at White Hart Lane Spurs will be looking to pick themselves up from Monday night’s 3-0 loss at Old Trafford this weekend as they play host to high-flying Man City. Roberto Mancini’s side are in scintillating form right now- six points from a possible six with seven goals thrown in sees them the top-scoring...

Can Bolton Stop a Rampant Man City?

by
Can Bolton Stop a Rampant Man City? It’s an early-season top of the table clash at the Reebok this Sunday as Bolton entertain big-spending Man City. Owen Coyle’s side got their campaign off to the perfect start with last week’s 4-0 win at QPR, but are up against it for the next few weeks- facing five of last term&rsq...