Brentford vs Manchester City Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 14th January 2025

Brentford enjoy home advantage, when visitors Manchester City swing by on Tuesday for a clash in the Premier League. The former will be looking to make that home advantage count.

Brentford are placed 11th with 27 points after 20 matches. Manchester City occupy a position as sixth in the league on 34 points.

Brentford are out to avenge a disappointing loss against Manchester City in their most recent meeting. According to the bookmakers, the home side could be in for another tough ride, though as it looks like an fairly unequal pairing at Gtech Community Stadium.

Brentford scored an average of 1.9 goals in ten matches or a total of 19 while allowing 15 goals against. This is an average of 1.5 goals against per match with three clean sheets along the way.

Manchester City are currently decent goalscorers, as they managed a bearable 15 goals in the past ten outings for an average of 1.5 goals a game. Their opponents scored a total of 16 goals, and while Manchester City claimed two clean sheets, they conceded an average of 1.6 goals per match.

Manchester City beat Brentford twice in their most recent meetings, as they claimed wins by 2-1 and 1-0, respectively.

Brentford vs Manchester City Prediction

Brentford Form

Brentford are currently performing inconsistently, as they lost against Arsenal by a 1-3 score, before winning 0-5 against Southampton. They were back on the losing side in a 0-1 defeat against Plymouth. Brentford won four of their past six matches on home soil in the Premier League, where they also lost twice but drew none. They scored 12 goals and conceded 13 times.

Manchester City Form

In their last three matches, Manchester City first beat Leicester 0-2, then West Ham by 4-1 and finally Salford City by 8-0. Manchester City claimed just one win from the last six away games in the Premier League. They also drew one and were defeated four times, as they were outscored by ten goals to seven.

Bookmakers have Manchester City down as rather big favourites for the win against Brentford. While the hosts will obviously come out fighting, we still think the visitors will prevail in the end.

Brentford fought their way to one wins and three points from their last six games against teams inside the top six. They were on target seven times in these matches, but also let in 13 goals. Brentford claimed eight wins, three draws as well as nine defeats in the Premier League this season. Manchester City have a record of ten wins, four draws and six defeats in the Premier League.

Brentford vs Manchester City Squads

Brentford Squad

Frank will select the starting XI for the upcoming match against Manchester City from the following players (the statistics in the brackets represent goals scored and matches played in the Premier League this season):

Hakon Rafn Valdimarsson (0/1), Mark Flekken (0/20), Matthew Cox (0/0), Aaron Hickey (0/0), Ben Mee (0/5), Ethan Pinnock (2/16), Jayden Meghoma (0/1), Ji-Soo Kim (0/2), Kristoffer Vassbakk Ajer (0/10), Mads Roerslev (0/16), Nathan Collins (2/20), Rico Henry (0/0), Sepp van den Berg (0/16), Christian Noergaard (1/17), Edmond-Paris Maghoma (0/5), Joshua Dasilva (0/0), Mathias Jensen (0/10), Mikkel Damsgaard (2/20), Ryan Trevitt (0/1), Vitaly Janelt (1/19), Yegor Yarmolyuk (0/15), Yunus Emre Konak (0/5), Bryan Mbeumo (13/20), Fabio Carvalho (1/16), Gustavo Gomes (0/0), Keane Lewis-Potter (1/20), Kevin Schade (5/20), Thiago Rodrigues (0/4), Yoane Wissa (10/17).

Manchester City Squad

Below is the full team squad of Manchester City. The manager Guardiola will pick his starting XI against Brentford from these players:

Ederson (0/13), Scott Carson (0/0), Stefan Ortega (0/7), Jacob Wright (0/0), Jahmai Simpson-Pusey (0/2), John Stones (2/8), Josh Wilson-Esbrand (0/0), Josko Gvardiol (4/19), Kyle Walker (0/15), Manuel Akanji (0/16), Nathan Ake (0/8), Rico Lewis (1/18), Ruben Dias (0/13), Bernardo Silva (2/20), Claudio Echeverri (0/0), Ilkay Gundogan (0/18), Jack Grealish (0/14), James McAtee (0/4), Jeremy Doku (2/14), Kevin De Bruyne (2/13), Mateo Kovacic (3/16), Matheus Nunes (0/12), Oscar Bobb (0/0), Phil Foden (2/15), Rodri (0/2), Savinho (1/17), Erling Haaland (16/20).

Brentford vs Manchester City Team News

At the time of writing, Brentford have four players on their injured and absent list as they prepare to meet Manchester City this coming Tuesday. Brentford have to alter their line-up, as both Christian Noergaard and Gustavo Gomes get a day in the shade.

Joshua Dasilva and Rico Henry are missing from the squad, Brentford will field against Manchester Cityon Tuesday.

At the time of writing, Manchester City just have two players on the injured and absent list, as they prepare for their match on Tuesday.

Manchester City need to do without Rodri and Oscar Bobb, who are not fit enough to travel to Gtech Community Stadium.

Brentford vs Manchester City Lineups

Brentford vs Manchester City H2H

Manchester City won 2-1 and 1-0 in the two most recent meetings with Brentford, and go into their upcoming match with a psychological advantage. All in all, Manchester City have a fine reading on Brentford in previous seasons with a 5-0-2 advantage going into this match. The bookies have Manchester City to win this match at best price odds of 11/17.

Brentford vs Manchester City Results

In the last seven matches between Brentford and Manchester City, both teams to score came up three times.

Brentford vs Manchester City Betting Tips

There are a few players in each team who currently draws attention to their name in the goal-scoring department. For the visitors, Erling Haaland has been hitting the net regularly and now has four goals in his last six games. Should he find himself in the starting line-up on Tuesday, it is because The Sky Blues bank on him to build on these numbers against Brentford. The latter relies on Bryan Mbeumo, who found the target five times in six games.

Brentford won five of their previous 10 matches across all tournaments at Gtech Community Stadium. They drew two and lost three as well, while Manchester City won two of their last 10 games away. They drew one and lost seven. Goals are usually flowing for Brentford on home soil these days, and at both ends of pitch. Both teams found the back of the net in eight of their last 10 matches here. In contrast, both teams to score happened seven times for Manchester City in their last 10 league games away from home.

Over 2.5 goals happened three times in the past seven encounters between Brentford and Manchester City, with Brentford scoring 0.71 goals on average per game. Manchester City averaged 1.43 goals, while both teams scored three times. Brentford saw over 2.5 goals in seven of their last ten matches across all tournaments, as they scored an average of 1.7 goals during this run. Of the last ten games for Manchester City, six had more than 2.5 goals, while they managed to score an average of 2.2 times goals per game.