Man City vs Norwich preview, team news, prediction, kick-off, channel
Watch Man City vs Norwich on Sunday live on Sky One (Sky channel 106) from 3pm on Sunday, or on the Sky Sports Main Event red button; Kick off 4pm
Saturday 25 July 2020 11:35, UK
Team news, stats and prediction ahead of Man City vs Norwich in the Premier League on Sunday (kick-off 4pm).
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Team news
David Silva is poised to make his final Premier League appearance for Manchester City as relegated Norwich visit the Etihad Stadium.
Top scorer Sergio Aguero remains on the sidelines after undergoing knee surgery last month but is not ruled out for the latter stages of the Champions League in August.
Number two goalkeeper Claudio Bravo is again doubtful with a muscular problem so Scott Carson could continue on the bench.
Norwich will be without Emiliano Buendia and Josip Drmic after they were sent off during Saturday's 2-0 defeat to Burnley.
Christoph Zimmermann returned from a long-term hamstring injury last weekend and will hope for more minutes, but Alex Tettey (knee) and Timm Klose (hamstring) are now on the treatment table.
Daniel Farke also remains without Grant Hanley (hamstring), Moritz Leitner (hernia) and Sam Byram (hamstring) while loanee Ondrej Duda has returned to parent club Hertha Berlin.
How to follow
Man City vs Norwich will be live on Sky One (Sky channel 106) from 3pm on Sunday, or via the red button of Sky Sports Main Event; kick-off 4pm. Sky Sports customers can watch in-game clips in the live match blog on the Sky Sports website and app. Highlights will also be published on the Sky Sports digital platforms and the Sky Sports Football YouTube channel shortly after the final whistle.
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Charlie's prediction
Manchester City are Manchester City. They'll never change the way they play, it'll always be the same, the formula is there, but Pep Guardiola has chopped and changed his team, but they've got Aymeric Laporte back - and scoring goals - and Raheem Sterling and Kevin De Bruyne back too.
I can see this being a painful send off for Norwich. I can see Manchester City being the exhibitionists this weekend.
CHARLIE PREDICTS: 5-0 (17/2 with Sky Bet)
Opta stats
- Manchester City have won three of their last four home league games against Norwich (L1), netting 16 goals in total across these matches.
- Norwich won the reverse fixture against Man City 3-2 in September - they've not done the league double against them since 1964-65 in the second tier, while the only reigning top-flight champion they've achieved this against was Liverpool in 1982-83.
- Of all the Premier League fixtures to have been played at least 10 times since the year 2000, Man City v Norwich has the highest goals-per-game ratio (4.27 - 47 in 11 games).
- Man City have lost just one of their last 11 closing day Premier League games (W8 D2), with that defeat coming at home to Norwich in 2012-13 - a season they were the reigning champions but had lost their title.
- Excluding play-offs, Norwich have alternated between victory and defeat in their last seven final league games of a season (W4 L3), winning 2-1 against Aston Villa in the Championship last season.
