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Good to know about Manchester City
– The Citizens lost their first match for the trophy. The confrontation with Arsenal in the FA Super Cup is a landmark start to the season, which has set the pace for the whole championship. Rookies Declan Rice and Mateo Kovacic clashed. The Gunners fan will face the first serious challenge: he must prove that after moving from the middle club to the top club, he will not get lost and will help solve the problems of winning the titles. The second had to fit into Pep Guardiola’s energy-intensive and complex system. The coaches clashed – Mikel Arteta did not beat his teacher last season, and now he has received a big payout for revenge. And first of all, the contenders for the championship faced: a year earlier, the Londoners kept second-placed City to the finish, but due to experience and a large selection of elite performers, the ” citizens” had the upper hand. The Gunners have had their revenge, but the main round of their showdown will begin later.
– After 5 days, the “blue sky” has already famously flown into the new season of the Premier League and dismantled Burnley. Holland did not postpone the first goal of the started championship: he scored in the 4th minute, then scored a brace closer to the break. In the 75th minute, the “citizens” already had a 3-0 lead, and at the end of the match the young striker of “Burnley” Anass Zarowry received a red card.
– At the start of the season, Manchester City reverted to a two central defender scheme. And this despite the fact that Pep has a large choice in the center of defense – in addition to Ake and Aknji, Stones, the recovered Laporte, Yoshko Guardiol also appeared. This position of the “citizens” is perhaps the most complete and terrifying.
– Speaking of newcomers. The Croatian centre-back made his international debut SM, replacing Rico Lewis in the 79th minute. Mateo Kovacic has been on the team much longer, so he managed to play in both the Super Bowl and the 1st round Premier League. The Croatian is already a big part of the main clip for Guardiola. The midfielder started against Arsenal together with Rodri, against Burnley he urgently replaced De Bruyne – and together with the Spaniard he did a tremendous job with the ball, covering the entire center of the field.
– City already had an extremely busy schedule at the start – between the matches against Arsenal and Burnley they had 5 days off, the same amount before the match with Sevilla. 3 days after the Super Bowl Uefa they will face Newcastle at home, but it is worth remembering that the start of the group stage is just around the corner Champions League.
Indicative composition of Manchester City (4-2-3-1): Ederson – Gomez, Ake, Guardiol, Walker – Kovacic, Rodri – Grealish, Alvarez, Silva – Haaland.
Good to know about Sevilla
– Rumors surfaced in early July that the Spaniards were transferring their entire squad – but the Spanish giants have since parted ways with just two players. Karim Rekik moved to Al Jazeera, and the red and whites received only 2 million euros from the deal. Roni Lopes returned to his native Portuguese league and signed a contract with Braga as a free agent.
– At the same time, work on the transfer market is still ongoing. The Nervions are negotiating with contenders for goalkeeper Yassin Buna and striker Youssef En-Neseri. According to rumors that appeared in mid-July, they wanted to earn the astronomical sum of 100 million euros from the sale (60 of which as compensation for the goalkeeper). While Sevilla’s demands for Boone are extremely high, there is still the possibility of a lucrative sale in En-Nesiri’s case. Arab Al-Hilal is demanding the striker of the Moroccan national team – the sheikhs are ready to pay 45 million euros for the player. True, the footballer himself has no plans to leave Spain and managed to refuse the offer of West Ham.
– The Mingyans started with a disappointing loss to Valencia, who finished 16th in the La Liga table last season, their worst performance in over 35 years. With an advantage in possession, the “red and white” had even fewer shots on goal than the opponent. In short, Sevilla now have too many problems to play on two fronts, to fight for the Super Cup Uefa.
Estimated squad Sevilla (4-2-3-1): Bunu – Acuna, Gattoni, Gudel, Navas – Rakitic, Sow – Gomez, Suso, Ocampos – En Neseri
Good to know about the comparison
– The teams cross paths very rarely – and only within the Champions League. This happened for the first time in the group stage. Champions League-15/16 – then Juventus and Borussia Mönchengladbach were in the same group with them. In both face-to-face ties with the red and white the Citizens won (2:1 at home, 3:1 away).
– After 7 years it happened again – this time the quartet also included Borussia Dortmund and Copenhagen. Again, “Sevlja” was content with the 3rd line and two defeats from the “celestial”.
Forecast Soccer.en: everything speaks in favor of the English giant. First of all, Manchester City’s squad is much stronger and the players have long been accustomed to their manager’s demands. In addition, the “citizens” have no problems that would seriously affect the atmosphere in the locker room. And since the match falls at the beginning of the season, there can be no question of fatigue. We give preference to the “citizens”: “City” will play interesting attacking football and easily win their first trophy in the new campaign.
