Soccer betting preview: Manchester City W welcomes Arsenal W in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: England Women's Super League
Competition: Sun 23.January
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Academy Stadium (7000 seats)

Manchester City W will want to employ their home advantage to help shorten the gap to today’s opposition. The host team are currently 6 points behind Arsenal W.

Insights:
  • All of Manchester City W's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Arsenal W have the most scored goals (30) in Women's Super 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.

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Manchester City W form and stats

Manchester City W have collected 3 points from their Women's Super League home games so far after 1-0-3. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Manchester City W has won six games in a row. The Manchester United W match was the last time out without a victory.

Manchester City W are confident in defense, having played 231 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

Before that match, a Women's Super League win away at Aston Villa W. Preceding that game was the away draw at Aston Villa W that finished 3-0. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Aston Villa W (3-0).

This is expected to be a close game, with Manchester City W perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Manchester City W as a small favourite), we find two games. Manchester City W has won two of these, drawn zero and lost zero.

A decent goal production from Manchester City W in their home games so far, with 6 goals from 4 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Manchester defense is not exactly impregnable. 8 goals conceded from 4 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Arsenal W form and stats

The visitors are W3-D1-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Women's Super League. Three has not been a lucky number for Arsenal W as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Leicester W match.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Birmingham W at their stadium, the result 0-2. Preceding that game, the 0-2 draw paying a visit to Birmingham W. A 0-2 defeat away at Birmingham W before that.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found two similar matches played by Arsenal W in our archives, and the results are: zero wins for Arsenal W, zero draws and two defeats.

After this away game Arsenal W return home for a Women's Super League game against Brighton W. That game is only four sleeps after this.

Arsenal W have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 11 goals from 5 away matches. It's not easy to score on Arsenal W as they have only conceded 3 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

The former H2H match ended Arsenal W - Manchester City W 5-0, earlier this season. Statistics for the preceeding ten meetings involving these two sides are: five wins for Manchester City W, one draw and four wins for Arsenal W. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: four games.

Top Goalscorers

Arsenal WV. Miedema
V. Miedema
7 goals
Arsenal WK. Little
K. Little
6 goals
ManchesterG. Stanway
G. Stanway
5 goals

Manchester City W missing players

Arsenal W missing players

Manchester City W Arsenal W
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
11 4 2 Played P 1 5 10
6 1 0 Won W 1 3 8
1 0 0 Drew D 0 1 1
4 3 2 Lost L 0 1 1
28 6 1 Scored S 4 11 30
18 8 6 Conceded C 0 3 5
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
91% 75% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 40% 70%
73% 50% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 40% 60%
45% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 20%
36% 25% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 20% 20%
36% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 60% 70%
27% 50% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 10%
 
8.1 10.8 9.5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 5.8 6.3
3.5 2 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 2 2.6 2.9
0.5 0.2 0.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1 1
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.5 12.5 10.5 Shots (avg) S ( 14 12.8 14.5
6 6 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 5.4 6.5
42% 25% 11% Goal Efficiency G E 80% 41% 46%
 
6.2 6 8 Shots against (avg) S A 13 6.2 5.8
3.1 3.8 4.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 2.6 2.3
Key stats in Women's Super League this season:
  • All of Arsenal W's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Manchester City W's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Arsenal W have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Arsenal W have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Women's Super League
  • Arsenal W have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Women's Super League
  • Arsenal W have the most clean sheets (7) in Women's Super League
  • Arsenal W have the most scored goals (30) in Women's Super League
  • Arsenal W have the most scored goals in the second half (19) in Women's Super League
  • Arsenal W have the the best goal difference (+25) in Women's Super League
  • Arsenal W have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Arsenal W haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Manchester City W have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Manchester City W have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Manchester City W 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 Arsenal W 10 8 1 1 30 5 5 5 0 0 19 2 5 3 1 1 11 3 25 25
2 Chelsea W 9 7 0 2 27 6 4 4 0 0 14 1 5 3 0 2 13 5 21 21
3 Manchester United W 11 6 3 2 24 13 6 3 1 2 15 10 5 3 2 0 9 3 11 21
4 Tottenham W 11 6 3 2 13 8 6 3 3 0 6 3 5 3 0 2 7 5 5 21
5 Manchester City W 11 6 1 4 28 18 4 1 0 3 6 8 7 5 1 1 22 10 10 19
6 Reading W 10 5 1 4 12 12 6 4 0 2 7 7 4 1 1 2 5 5 0 16
7 Brighton W 11 5 0 6 12 16 6 3 0 3 5 10 5 2 0 3 7 6 -4 15
8 West Ham W 10 3 5 2 13 12 5 2 3 0 9 4 5 1 2 2 4 8 1 14
9 Everton W 10 3 2 5 9 16 5 1 2 2 5 8 5 2 0 3 4 8 -7 11
10 Aston Villa W 11 3 1 7 6 25 5 1 0 4 3 11 6 2 1 3 3 14 -19 10
11 Leicester W 12 2 0 10 6 24 6 2 0 4 5 10 6 0 0 6 1 14 -18 6
12 Birmingham W 12 1 1 10 6 31 6 1 0 5 4 14 6 0 1 5 2 17 -25 4

Read more about Women's Super League

The FA Women’s Super League (FA WSL) is the highest level of women’s football in England. It has been through numerous format changes since its first season in 2011. Eleven teams play 20 fixtures to create the final league table and decide who are champions.