Manchester City sealed the Premier League title three weeks ago but still have records to smash as they welcome Huddersfield Town to the Etihad Stadium in the first Super Sunday match.
Victory will see Man City set a new points record by a title winning team and can need just one goal to smash the record for most goals in a single season by any team, let alone a title winning team.
Huddersfield meanwhile come here knowing that a win or draw will be key to their survival hopes.
Team news
Manchester City could have defensive trio of John Stones (groin), Vincent Kompany (muscle) and Kyle Walker (groin) back available here.
Striker, Sergio Aguero remains ruled out with a knee injury.
Huddersfield could welcome Tom Ince back from a thigh injury.
Defender, Michael Hefele is ruled out of this clash with a knee injury but could be fit for Wednesday’s trip to Chelsea.
Danny Williams and Elias Kachunga are both ruled out for rest of season with ankle injuries.
Form
Manchester City are unbeaten in four of their last seven across all competitions, and have kept just one clean sheet in that time.
In the league, Gabriel Jesus and Raheem Sterling have combined to score seven of the Citizens’ 17 goals across last five league games.
Jesus in fact has scored in each of City’s last three games.
Huddersfield meanwhile are in dire form, taking just four points from their last five games.
Apart from the games where they got points and a 0-0 draw with Swansea in mid March, the Terriers haven’t scored in a defeat since mid January, losing 1-4 at home to West Ham.
Stat Attack
- Manchester City have avoided defeat in last four meetings across all competitions with Huddersfield (W2 D2).
- At home in top tier, City are unbeaten in their last four against the Terriers since suffering a 2-3 defeat in October 1964 when based at Maine Road.
- Manchester City have made the three highest assists with Kevin De Bruyne top with 15 hands in goal, followed by Leroy Sane on 13 then comes David Silva and Raheem Sterling who have made 11 assists each.
- Huddersfield have made the most tackles this season in the Premier League, averaging 19.5 tackles per game.
- The Citizens have had 21 shots hit the woodwork whilst Huddersfield have barely managed a third, with seven shots finding the frame of goal.
- Just one of Huddersfield’s goals have come from outside box, making them the worst PL team in that area whilst Man City have scored 13 from distance.
- Huddersfield have scored the least goals from set pieces, managing to find the net eight times.
Where can game be won or lost?
| Per Game Average | Manchester City (home) | Huddersfield Town (away) |
| Corners | 7.29 | 3.65 |
| Fouls | 9.12 | 11.88 |
| Shots | 18.41 | 8.53 |
| Shots on Target | 8.35 | 3 |
| Goals | 3.41 | 0.65 |
| Yellow Cards | 1.53 | 1.82 |
| Red Cards | 1 | 1 |
| Goals per First Half % | 32.8 | 45.5 |
| Goals per Second Half % | 67.2 | 54.5 |
Manchester City should definitely dominate here because they are far superior in every area.
Although City waste more shots off target, their attack is simply amazing and should easily beat Huddersfield if the Terriers play like their away goal average suggests.
To be frank, Huddersfield’s best hope is to score in first half as that is where they score more goals than Man City.
Fail then this could be an one sided affair.
Prediction
Given Huddersfield’s pitful away goal average, I just can see one result here.
Prediction: Manchester City 4-0 Huddersfield Town
Jake predicts: Manchester City 3-0 Huddersfield Town
Result: Manchester City 0-0 Huddersfield Town