Manchester City scored a late penalty to rescue a second successive 3-3 draw as their charity match in Barcelona ended in entertaining fashion.
07.08.2022 - 12:35 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Manchester City's Premier League title defence will start on Sunday afternoon when they face West Ham in their first game of the new season.
A busy summer has seen Erling Haaland, Kalvin Phillips and Stefan Ortega come through the door, while the likes of Raheem Sterling, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus departed. City will be looking to bounce back from their Community Shield defeat last weekend, where expected title-rivals Liverpool emerged 3-1 winners.
City suffered a big scare in their title run-in last season when they faced West Ham, drawing 2-2 at the London Stadium in the penultimate game week, ultimately handing Liverpool a glimmer of hope. Pep Guardiola will be hoping for a more straightforward result this time round, with almost a fully-fit squad at his disposal.
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Aymeric Laporte is City's only guaranteed absence, with the defender set to miss the first few games with a knee injury. John Stones is also yet to return to feature in pre-season, so it will most likely be Nathan Ake partnering Ruben Dias.
So, what line-ups will both teams select? To find out, we used FIFA 22 to get a score prediction for West Ham versus Manchester City, and this is what happened.
To complete this simulation, we used FIFA 22 and updated the squads with the latest transfers. Due to FIFA 22 not having the latest kits, both sides lined up in the kits from the 2021/22 season.
We predict that the Hammers could set up in a 4-2-3-1 formation, with their line-up as follows: Areola; Coufal, Zouma, Dawson, Johnson; Soucek, Rice; Bowen, Lanzini, Fornals; Antonio.
We predict that City could set up in a 4-3-3 formation, with their line-up as follows: Ederson;
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