This pre-match analysis features two teams both on the same number of points, occupying very close positions on the table, the away team is yet to win an away match this season while the home team is yet to be defeated at home.
On one part of the pitch are the Craven Cottage boys who recorded a rare away win at the DW stadium on Saturday while on the other side of the pitch is a team popularly called the ‘Noisy Neighbours’.
Following Fulham’s very rare away win at the DW Stadium on Saturday Martin Jol is very likely to leave his Fulham side unchanged as they welcome the “other” Manchester team. Manchester City on the other hand would be expected to make a whole lot of changes following their poor performance in the League cup against Aston Villa.
Giorgos Karagounis should be making his debut after spending all of 90 minutes on the bench at the DW Stadium with a list of injured players including Mahamadou Diarra (Knee), Kieran Richardson (Slight knock), Simon Davis (hip), Ashkan Dejagah, Phillipe Senderos and Frei Kerim. Fulham has a very strong home record having just lost 1 out of their last 13 Premier League outings and also had decent record against the top 6 last seasons winning two games, drawing two and losing two. With the former Manchester United Striker Berbatov, who has managed to form a strong connection with Rodallega poised to start, Man City might be in for a Heart Breaker.
However, Manchester City has only won just one game in six matches in all competitions. Mancini would hope that he could turn around his team’s poor start to the season by turning the group of greatly talented stars into a truly cohesive team unit as they visit London. City is also likely to revert to their four man defensive formation rather than the 3-5-2 that yielded utterly no success on Wednesday. City is also set to be without Samir Nasri (hamstring), Micah Richards (Ankle), and Maicon (Foot)
Both Teams have played together a total of 59 times with City winning almost half with 26 wins to Fulhams 17 while there has been 16 draws between them.
This same fixture last season saw an almost amazing comeback that ended up in a draw where the boy from Craven Cottage came from two goals down to draw the game thanks to Kompany’s own goal and a Bobby Zamora goal
Records to be Set!!!!
Will Giorgos Karagounis, who is one goal short of 50 goals in league football having played in the Greek, Italian and Portuguese leagues, get to 50?
Will Goal keeper Joe Hart stop the Cottagers from scoring to take his clean sheet count to a massive 100 games in his club history considering the fact that he has conceived 14 goals in the last 7 games? Well!!!!! We will c
Possible Line-Up-
FULHAM
Schwarzer, Riether, Hughes, Hangeland, Riise, Duff, Sidwell, Karagounis, Kacaniklic, Berbatov, Rodallega
MANCHESTER CITY
Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy, Sinclair, Garcia, Yaya Toure, Silva, Dzeko, Aguero
Let the better team win!v
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