Chris Sutton has shared his prediction for Manchester City’s Premier League match against Sheffield United.
After seeing off Everton in midweek with a 3-1 victory at Goodison Park, the Citizens are back at the Etihad Stadium this afternoon for the final match of 2023.
Looking ahead to the match against the Yorkshire club, one pundit has weighed in on how he thinks the game will go and what could happen in it.
Sutton says Man City could ‘avalanche’ Sheffield United
Written in his column for BBC Sport where he previewed and predicted the results for all of this weekend’s Premier League fixtures, Sutton had this to say about City’s match against the Blades.
He said: “Sheffield United are bottom of the table, but we’ve seen some improvement since Chris Wilder took charge at the start of December. I am not sure it will do them much good at Etihad Stadium, though.
“Manchester City became world champions over Christmas, but they had a decent festive period at home too, with their win at Everton plus teams above them dropping points.
“United were competitive against City at the start of the season and only lost to a late Rodri goal, but their challenge here is to hang on in there. I just don’t see them doing it, and it could end up as an avalanche if City score early.”
Even though the Blades have played one more league game than Pep Guardiola’s side at this stage of the campaign, City have scored 28 more goals than them and conceded 26 fewer.
In fact, United have conceded more goals (47) than any other side in the league this season by a significant margin.
With that in mind, it’s easy to see why Sutton thinks City could score a lot of goals this afternoon, regardless of the fact that they only just managed to score two against them in the reverse fixture at Bramall Lane earlier in the season as Sutton mentioned.
