Manchester City will travel to Vitality Stadium this Saturday to face Bournemouth in the 25th Round of the 2022/23 Premier League season.
The hosts come into this tie on the back of a gritty 1-0 win over Wolves last time, breathing life into their fight for survival. That result ended a seven-match winless Premier League run (D2, L5). Still, Cherries manager Gary O’Neil is unlikely to care, with Bournemouth dangling only one point above the drop zone ahead of the round.
They will likely drop back to the relegation zone here, given their record against City, as they are winless against City in 17 league meetings (D2, L15) – which coincidentally is the most times one team has met another without winning in English football history.
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Meanwhile, City will be desperate to get back to winning after dropping points in their last two games against Nottingham Forest and RB Leipzig in the Champions League. Both games saw them score first in the first half but conceded late second-half goals.
Still, they have been given a 52.5% chance by Opta Analyst to win the league ahead of their chase of a 200th PL away victory despite sitting two points behind Arsenal ahead of this game.
Given their record in this game, we can expect another high-scoring affair with over 2.5 goals scored.
