The league table in Premier League tells a story about these teams so far, with Manchester City leading Sheffield United by 33 points. Match preview to follow:
- Manchester City has the fewest conceded goals (13) in Premier League
- Sheffield United has the fewest scored goals (12) in Premier League
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Manchester City form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Etihad Stadium as Manchester City, who have the fewest conceded goals (13) in Premier League, have scored 21 goals to get 23 points from 10 games. The overall stats in the Premier League are 7-2-1 (wins-draws-losses). Manchester haven’t lost a league-game in eleven attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Tottenham Hotspur, 69 days ago. Ever since the West Bromwich Albion game Manchester has been unbeatable here at Etihad Stadium producing four straight wins.
The Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson Santana de Moraes is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 360 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premier League.
Happy days for Manchester in their previous game, a Premier League match away at West Bromwich Albion (placed 19th) that ended with a 5-0 victory. Before that match, a FA Cup win away at Cheltenham Town.
As mentioned above, Manchester "killed" West Bromwich Albion in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency.
Manchester are huge favourites in this match and it would be a big surprise if they fail to leave Etihad Stadium with a victory. The home side has been in this situation before, with huge expectations of a win. 21 earlier games are comparable to this one, and Manchester City has won 17 times, drawn three and lost one. Sports bettors who like handicap betting will like to know that Manchester City has won by at least two goals 14 times when in this position.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Manchester City as they are travelling to their away game against Burnley in the Premier League. That match is four days after this one.
Manchester can score goals in their home matches. After 10 league matches they have found the net 21 times. Manchester have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Sheffield United form and stats
Sheffield United, who have the fewest scored goals (12) in Premier League, have only collected 4 points from their away games in the Premier League, after 1-1-8 (10 played).
Sheffield play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-1 victory visiting Manchester United (placed 2nd). A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Plymouth Argyle.
Oliver Burke came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Manchester United last time out, making the manager C. Wilder feel like a tactical genius.
Sheffield are huge outsiders in this game. Running a check in our games database we found one match where they were as big outsiders as an away team. Results were one win, zero draws and zero defeats. Of the defeats, zero games were lost by at least two goals margin.
After this away game Sheffield return home for a Premier League game against West Bromwich Albion. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Sheffield United as they have only managed to score 6 times from 10 away games in the league. Sheffield have conceded 18 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Sheffield United - Manchester 0-1 entered in the official records. Last six meetings between the teams: Manchester City won four, Sheffield United won one and one draw. one game with over 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  İ. Gündoğan 7 goals |  R. Sterling 6 goals |  R. Mahrez 5 goals |
Manchester City missing players
Sheffield United missing players
| Manchester City | Sheffield United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 10 | 6 | Played | P | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| 12 | 7 | 5 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 8 | 16 |
| 36 | 21 | 15 | Scored | S | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 13 | 7 | 1 | Conceded | C | 3 | 18 | 33 |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 74% | 80% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 70% | 60% |
| 32% | 30% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 40% |
| 32% | 30% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 10% | 15% |
| 16% | 20% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 10% | 10% |
| 37% | 30% | 17% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 45% |
| 58% | 70% | 83% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 5% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.2 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 16.2 | 16.5 | 17.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 7.9 | 8.9 |
| 5.7 | 6 | 6.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.6 | 2.9 |
| 33% | 35% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 23% | 21% |
- Manchester City has the fewest conceded goals (13) in Premier League
- Manchester City has the fewest conceded goals (7) at home in Premier League
- Manchester City has the most clean sheets (11) in Premier League
- Manchester City has the most clean sheets (7) at home in Premier League
- Manchester City has the most scored goals in the first half (24) in Premier League
- Manchester City has the the best goal difference (+14) at home in Premier League
- Manchester City has the the best goal difference (+23) in Premier League
- Manchester City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Manchester City have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Manchester City have scored more than double the goals of Sheffield United.
- Manchester City haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Manchester City is in the best form (6-0-0)
- Sheffield United has the fewest clean sheets (1) in Premier League
- Sheffield United has the fewest points (4) away in Premier League
- Sheffield United has the fewest scored goals (12) in Premier League
- Sheffield United has the the worst goal difference (-12) away in Premier League
- Sheffield United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Sheffield United have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Sheffield United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sheffield United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Manchester City | 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 36 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 23 | 41 |
| 2 | Manchester United | 20 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 37 | 27 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 12 | 10 | 40 |
| 3 | Leicester City | 20 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 36 | 22 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 10 | 14 | 39 |
| 4 | Liverpool | 20 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 40 | 23 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 17 | 37 |
| 5 | West Ham United | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 30 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 35 |
| 6 | Tottenham Hotspur | 19 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 34 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 14 | 33 |
| 7 | Everton | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 29 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 33 |
| 8 | Chelsea | 20 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 33 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 30 |
| 9 | Arsenal | 20 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 26 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 30 |
| 10 | Aston Villa | 18 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 33 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 29 |
| 11 | Southampton | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 27 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 29 |
| 12 | Leeds United | 19 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 32 | 35 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 19 | 21 | -3 | 26 |
| 13 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 21 | 29 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 16 | -8 | 23 |
| 14 | Crystal Palace | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 24 | 36 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 18 | -12 | 23 |
| 15 | Burnley | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 14 | -11 | 22 |
| 16 | Newcastle United | 20 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 34 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 17 | -15 | 19 |
| 17 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 20 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 22 | 29 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 14 | -7 | 18 |
| 18 | Fulham | 19 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 27 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -12 | 13 |
| 19 | West Bromwich Albion | 20 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 48 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 29 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 19 | -33 | 11 |
| 20 | Sheffield United | 20 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 33 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 18 | -21 | 8 |
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