{"id":653211,"date":"2025-04-02T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=653211"},"modified":"2025-04-01T09:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:24:14","slug":"manchester-city-predicted-lineup-leicester-apr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/04\/02\/manchester-city-predicted-lineup-leicester-apr\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City Predicted Lineup vs Leicester City for April 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a Manchester City predicted lineup for their Premier League clash with relegation-threatened Leicester City. After some rotation to beat Bournemouth in the FA Cup, the Cityzens expect to have enough rested legs and firepower to blow past the Foxes who are among the favourites to go down to the Championship.<\/p>\n

Manchester City Predicted Lineup vs Leicester in Premier League Tie<\/h2>\n

How Manchester City Have Lined up Recently<\/h3>\n

Ederson is the standard go-to in goal with Stefan Ortega deputising if needed. In defence, there’s been a settled choice, largely due to injuries with Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiol, Matheus Nunes, and Abdukodir Khusanov starting most matches together.<\/p>\n

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In midfield Nico Gonzalez can sit as a deeper midfielder either as a lone sitter or with Ilkay Gundogan. Gundogan started at the weekend with Mateo Kovacic in an interesting pairing. Omar Marmoush, Savio, Jeremy Doku, Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden, and Kevin de Bruyne battle it out for the spots behind the striker. Erling Haaland is of course, the main man up front.<\/p>\n

Manchester City Recent Form & Tactics<\/h3>\n

Pep Guardiola has used his 4-2-3-1 or 4-1-4-1 setup in an attempt to control games. The more risky 4-1-4-1 base is a high risk versus high reward situation as it can either dominate possession and territory or leave you prone to counter attacks.<\/p>\n

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Rumours of any demise may have been premature as despite a shocking run of form earlier in the campaign the team are on a stronger run at the moment with just one defeat in the last fix fixtures. They have however found it tough to keep a clean sheet which could prove costly if they are not clinical on their own attacks.<\/p>\n

Manchester City Injuries to Consider<\/h3>\n

Per PremierInjuries<\/a>, things have gone from bad to worse for Guaridola. Not only is he without Rodri, John Stones, Manuel Akanji, and Nathan Ake for defensive help but he still won’t have Oscar Bobb available. Haaland is the newest injury to add to the list as he has an issue around his ankle which could keep him out for the rest of the run-in.<\/p>\n

Manchester City Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n

GK – Ederson<\/p>\n

LB – Josko Gvardiol<\/p>\n

CB – Ruben Dias<\/p>\n

CB – Abdukodi Khusanov<\/p>\n

RB – Matheus Nunes<\/p>\n

DM – Nico Gonzalez<\/p>\n

W – Jerem Doku<\/p>\n

W – Savio<\/p>\n

AM – Kevin de Bruyne<\/p>\n

AM – Phil Foden<\/p>\n

ST – Omar Marmoush<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a Manchester City predicted lineup for their Premier League clash with relegation-threatened Leicester City. After some rotation to beat Bournemouth in the FA Cup, the Cityzens expect to have enough rested legs and firepower to blow past the Foxes who are among the favourites to go down to the Championship. Manchester City Predicted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":653222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[17,3],"tags":[9670],"class_list":["post-653211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-city","category-premier-league","tag-manchester-city-predicted-lineup"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653211","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653223,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653211\/revisions\/653223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}