{"id":554553,"date":"2020-06-22T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=554553"},"modified":"2020-06-21T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T15:09:14","slug":"manchester-city-good-start-burnley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/06\/22\/manchester-city-good-start-burnley\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City Looking to Continue Good Start Against Burnley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/manchester-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester City<\/a> will be looking to continue their winning restart off the back of the 3-0 victory against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/arsenal\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arsenal<\/a>. The Citizens will be taking on a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2017\/12\/09\/burnley-one-dimensional-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Burnley<\/a> team who themselves will be looking to secure a top-half finish and ensure of a strong end to the season.<\/p>\n<p>The major headline regarding City in recent days will be the news of Germany international Leroy Sane, who will be looking to secure a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/06\/19\/report-leroy-sane-will-leave-manchester-city-and-join-bayern-munich\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">likely move away from the Etihad<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/bayern-munich\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bayern Munich<\/a> looking like a probable destination.<\/p>\n<h2>Manchester City Ready to Put Leroy Sane Differences Behind Them Ahead of Burnley Match<\/h2>\n<h3>Latest From Both Camps<\/h3>\n<p>City will be wanting to play Champions League football next season but that will be down to the appeal against UEFA\u2019s imposed ban, which may see them reached a compromised resolution in order to reduce the already set two-season ban.<\/p>\n<p>Burnley have several players who are due to be out of contract with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/06\/20\/report-burnley-look-set-to-lose-aaron-lennon-and-four-other-first-team-players\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Lennon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/06\/21\/joe-hart-to-leave-burnley-at-the-end-of-the-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Hart<\/a> set to leave, while Jeff Hendrick and Phil Bardsley are the other experienced campaigners who may leave before the season is out should they not agree on a new deal before the 23rd June cut-off point.<\/p>\n<h3>Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Eric Garcia will only be out of action for ten days following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/man-city-ederson-eric-garcia-18458378\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nasty injury<\/a> in the win over Arsenal. Garcia spent Wednesday night being assessed in hospital and was discharged on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>For Burnley, it was a frustrating week of not knowing whether their squad capacity will be affected by the players who look set to leave amid uncertainty from contract deals. For now, though, it&#8217;s only Lennon and Hart who are set to leave.<\/p>\n<h3>Prediction<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to look past City here given their superiority throughout their multi-millions of talent. Another home fixture will likely see them grab three points, which will move them that much closer to clinching second place this term.<\/p>\n<p>Burnley, should they shut up shop as excepted, will do exceptionally well to hold off one of the most productive and potent outfits that there are.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin De Bruyne was once again in inspired form in his first game back from the enforced break. With a goal and once again running the show, his creative vision applied a touch of class in every regard when on the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Burnley have found themselves on a resurgent run since the new year and will hope to be at the centre of what would be a huge upset. Dwight McNeil will be one to watch with the winger being one of Burnley\u2019s standout performers this campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prediction: Manchester City 3-0 Burnley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"4jGAnSuFSFljOrLYDqtSqg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1250413129\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'4jGAnSuFSFljOrLYDqtSqg',sig:'PeRwCo_90qE_GAlmgnftCt42SPU1HBpQkkKvsPVQRnk=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1250413129',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City will be looking to continue their winning restart off the back of the 3-0 victory against Arsenal. The Citizens will be taking on a Burnley team who themselves will be looking to secure a top-half finish and ensure of a strong end to the season. The major headline regarding City in recent days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3443,"featured_media":554672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,17,3],"tags":[482,1638,100,40,136],"class_list":["post-554553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-burnley","category-manchester-city","category-premier-league","tag-burnley","tag-leroy-sane","tag-manchester-city","tag-premier-league","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}