Wolves face Manchester City on Sunday in an important game for both sides. Wolves have just 1 point from 7 games and are desperate to get some points on the board. After Arsenal’s 2-0 defeat to Bournemouth, Man City will go top with a win here.
Wolves have had a torrid winless start to the 2024/25 campaign, losing 6/7 games. However, their schedule hasn’t been too kind to them, having already faced Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and Newcastle. Despite their struggles, they’ve scored in 6/7 games and have shown they can create plenty of chances in most games. Defensively they have plenty of room for improvement – conceding 21 goals already, more than any other team in the Premier League.
Today’s visitors have started the season as you’d expect. Pep Guardiola has had to try and adapt to losing arguably their most important player in Rodri who is out for the season. Without Rodri, results show that they struggle without the Spanish midfielder. He often has the most touches in their team and is great at winning the ball back due to his excellent reading of the game. With his absence they could be more vulnerable in the transition phase of play and are certainly more prone to getting counter attacked more often. City have conceded in 5/6 games without Rodri.
Despite Man City’s ever consistent dominant nature, keeping clean sheets is something that doesn’t happen as often as you’d expect. Man City have conceded in 6 consecutive league games. In fact, they’ve won with BTTS landing in 5 of their last 8 league games. City average of 1.09 xGA away from home this season implies their defence has been far from water tight. Fulham recorded a staggering xGA of 2.60 last time out at the Etihad.
These sides have seen BTTS land in 6/7 games this season. Manchester City have won 5/6 of the previous encounters between these two with BTTS landing in 4/5 of the previous meeting at Molineux.
TIP: Manchester City To Win & BTTS @ 2.60 (Bet365)
