Team Characteristics

Burnley
Man City

+ Burnley's Strengths

(Team has no significant strengths)

+ Man City's Strengths

Shooting from direct free kicks
Very Strong
Finishing scoring chances
Very Strong
Creating long shot opportunities
Very Strong
Defending set pieces
Very Strong
Creating chances using through balls
Strong
Creating chances through individual skill
Strong
Attacking down the wings
Strong
Attacking set pieces
Strong

- Burnley's Weaknesses

Finishing scoring chances
Weak
Aerial duels
Weak
Avoiding individual errors
Weak
Defending set pieces
Weak
Defending against long shots
Weak
Defending against skillful players
Weak

- Man City's Weaknesses

Aerial duels
Weak

Burnley's Style

  • Take long shots
  • Attacking down the left
  • Play the offside trap
  • Consistent first eleven
  • Playing in their own half

Man City's Style

  • Possession football
  • Control the game in the opposition's half
  • Attack through the middle
  • Short passes
  • Non-aggressive
  • Rotate their first eleven
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* Strengths, weaknesses and styles are calculated from statistics of each player's latest two seasons

Match Forecast

Man City will score as a result of an opposition error
Very Likely
Man City will score a long shot
Very Likely
Man City will control the game in the opposition's half
Very Likely
Man City will score from a setpiece situation
Likely
Man City will score as a result of individual skill
Likely
* Match forecast is generated from clashes in team characteristics.

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User Predictions

Comments (16)

 
  • Boring boring City, imagine in the first game playing so destructively killing...

  • 1X for sure

  • @Syriacus22 Burnley were whipped 6-0 last time they met

  • 1-3

  • Manchester City are fighting fit with a full squad to choose from for their Premier League opener.

  • Haaland Bruut Force Locked In To Score Anytime -134

  • Guardiola said the Croatian centre-back Josko Gvardiol has settled in well in Manchester and is ready to go on Friday.

  • 1-2 City

  • Home team not lose it: 1X

  • @bopol you're hoping?

  • @Tuiop I get the feeling

  • 3.5 goals over for me. Good luck to everyone ��

  • 1-3 Man City

  • +1.5 handicap on Burnley

  • The Premier League season returns and with it, Manchester City travel to Turf Moor to face a Burnley side managed by none other than Vincent Kompany. Both teams come into the new season off the bat of very successful campaigns last time out, with Manchester City winning a historic treble of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the Champion's League, while Burnley exceeded all expectations, including their own, in making a swift and decisive return to the Premier League. Both teams have a lot to prove if they're to replicate the success of last season. It's always difficult to predict the opening day, yet history very much favours the Manchester side of this North-West clash. City have won all 6 of the last 6 meetings between the 2 sides in all competitions, keeping clean sheets in all 6 of those games too. Most recently was a 6 - 0 mauling, as City swept Burnley aside in March en-route to their FA Cup victory. With all this in mind, a 2 - 1 Manchester City win seems likely!

  • 1-1