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Man City’s quadruple hopes were slashed by Chelsea in their FA Cup exit on Saturday, with Pep Guardiola criticized for being a little too gung-ho with his rotation, even if it had served the Spaniard well up until that point.
The likes of key performers Phil Foden and Ilkay Gundogan were only utilized from the bench, while Ederson, John Stones and Riyad Mahrez were amongst the unused substitutes, though it would be a surprise if a full-strength team was deployed here with the League Cup final around the corner.
The visitors should have the quality to bounce back here regardless, as they still possess 28 wins from their past 31 appearances, as Man Utd and Leeds were the only other sides to beat them.
They haven’t however been typically pummelling teams as Man City and under 3.5 goals has landed in nine of their past 14 appearances, as only two of these games saw four goals or more in total.
Man City To Win And Under 3.5 Goals
City have won all four encounters with Villa since the latter’s promotion, with all but one of these games featuring fewer than four goals, including a 2-0 win in the reverse fixture this season.
We can’t see Aston Villa taking the game to City in the best of circumstances, let alone when missing talisman Jack Grealish following his setback, while fellow attacker Trezeguet has seen his season ended after sustaining a knee injury against Liverpool.
Villa have now won just once in six appearances, with Grealish missing each of these, as they failed to register against Sheffield Utd, Wolves and Spurs.
That doesn’t bode well for them here and in fact, Villa are a disappointing W2-D2-L6 in the absence of their talisman since the start of last season, as they only scored more than once on a single occasion when taking on struggling Fulham recently.
There have been fewer than three goals in seven of Villa’s past 10 matches now, and just one strike or less in half of these, so there would be no raised eyebrows if they were to fail in scoring here.
Man City hold by far the best defensive record in the division with just 23 goals conceded from 32 league games, while it’s worth remembering that five of those came on the same day as they suffered a 5-2 defeat to Leicester early on in the campaign.
That was before the arrival of key centre-back Ruben Dias, who was absent in the recent defeat to Leeds as Guardiola wrang the changes.
Man City To Win And Under 3.5 Goals At 11/10
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