Can Southampton surprise Manchester City in their own stadium?

These are hustling days for the host team, as they had a game only three days ago in the Champions League. Thankfully the previous game, versus RB Leipzig, was also a home game here at Etihad Stadium. The away team is better rested.

Manchester City form and stats

As mentioned below, Manchester City are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 2 Premier League games.

City are confident in defense, having played 305 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

A nice win for Manchester City last time playing, versus RB Leipzig. That was also a home game and the match ended 6-3 with Gabriel Jesus, Riyad Mahrez, Jack Grealish, Nathan Aké and João Cancelo scoring for the victors. Jack Grealish, an attacker, was the highest rated performer for the team in that fixture, receiving a rating of 8.61 (out of 10). Grealish scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass and had 21 successful passes (of 25 total). A goal frenzy last time out for City, with a total of 9 goals in the match against RB Leipzig. Fun stuff to watch!

A strong away win before that one, visiting Leicester City and winning 1-0.

It would be a shock if the hosts fail to win this game. Let's see how Manchester City have performed as huge favourites like they are today: 15 games found in the database showing 13 Manchester City wins, two draws and zero defeats.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for City, as the Carabao Cup home game vs Wycombe Wanderers is only three days away.

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Manchester City at home in the league. 10 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.

Southampton form and stats

The Premier League season is young and Southampton have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 2 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 1 defeat so far. The last three matches for Southampton have all ended in a draw.

Southampton played 0-0 against West Ham United in their previous match. Mohammed Salisu, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.84. Salisu hit one key pass and won 7 of 10 duels.

Before that, Southampton travelled to Newcastle United and returned home with a draw after the game finished 2-2.

The visitors come into this game as huge outsiders. This role is not totally unknown to them, as they have played one away match before with similar winning odds. These games have ended with zero wins, zero draws and one defeat. zero games were lost by at least two goals margin.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Southampton manager R. Hasenhüttl as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Sheffield United.

It's early days yet, but Southampton has scored 3 and conceded 5 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).

Head 2 Head

Manchester City-Southampton H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Manchester City nine wins, Southampton one win, zero draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

F. Torres García 2 goals

A. Laporte 1 goals

İ. Gündoğan 1 goals

Manchester City missing players

Southampton missing players