Bristol City vs Manchester City Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 28th February 2023

Bristol City take on visitors Manchester City at Ashton Gate in a FA Cup tie this coming Tuesday.

Manchester City are hugely favoured to knock out Bristol City from this competition. The latter will obviously put up a fight this coming Tuesday but an away win still seem the most likely scenario.

Bristol City are relatively average in the art of goal-scoring these days. They scored a steady 12 goals in their previous ten matches, for an average of 1.2 per game. They simultaneously allowed their opponents eight goals, or an average of 0.8 a game. Furthermore, they fought their way to two clean sheets in this run.

Manchester City average of 2.6 goals per game, scoring 26 goals in their past ten matches. They conceded eight goals in total, or an average of 0.8 per game, achieving four clean sheets as well.

This is the first time Bristol City squares up against Manchester City in the FA Cup in the 21st century, thus both face a whole new experience of coming up against an unknown opponent.

Bristol City vs Manchester City Prediction

Bristol City Form

Bristol City went through their last three matches undefeated, but started by drawing 1-1 with Wigan. Another draw followed, this time 1-1 against Sunderland, before they beat Hull by 1-0. Bristol City managed to win two of their past six home matches in the FA Cup. In the remaining four, they drew two and lost two, as they scored seven and conceded five goals.

Manchester City Form

Manchester City claimed five points in their previous three matches, which started with a 1-1 draw with Nottingham Forest. This was followed by another draw with RB Leipzig, this time 1-1, before they outclassed Bournemouth by 1-4. In their last six FA Cup away matches, Manchester City claimed a full handful of five wins. They've drawn none but in stead lost once, scoring 15 whilst conceding four times.

Manchester City are on the look-out for a win, and we expect them to claim it in a high scoring match, when they visit Bristol City at Ashton Gate on Tuesday.

Bristol City vs Manchester City Squads

Bristol City Squad

The 59-year-old manager of Bristol City, Nigel Pearson, will select the lineup against Manchester City from the players listed below:

Vyner, Scott, Atkinson, Weimann, Wells, Sykes, James, O'Leary, Dasilva, Naismith, Conway, Williams, Pring, Tanner, King, Bell, Mehmeti, Kalas, Cornick, Wiles-Richards, Haikin, Wilson, Baker, Benarous, Idehen.

Manchester City Squad

Listed below is the full squad of Manchester City players that the manager Josep Guardiola will choose from for the upcoming game:

Ederson, Rodri, Haaland, De Bruyne, Silva, Gundogan, Akanji, Ake, Grealish, Foden, Stones, Walker, Dias, Mahrez, Laporte, Lewis, Alvarez, Carson, Ortega, Mendy, Gomez, Palmer, Phillips, Perrone.

Bristol City vs Manchester City Team News

At the time of writing, it looks as if only two players are unavailable for Bristol City, when they prepare for their upcoming assignment.

Ayman Benarous and Tomas Kalas are missing from the squad, Bristol City will field against Manchester Cityon Tuesday.

Manchester City face a list of four absentees from the squad ahead of their next match this coming Tuesday against Bristol City. Benjamin Mendy is suspended from the Manchester City squad with too many penalty points to his name.

Jack Grealish, Ruben Dias and Julian Alvarez all face a spell on the sidelines for Manchester City due to various injuries.

Bristol City vs Manchester City Lineups

Bristol City vs Manchester City H2H

Having never shared a season in the FA Cup in recent past, this is the first time Bristol City comes up against Manchester City in this context.

Bristol City vs Manchester City Betting Tips

Erling Haaland has a ball of a time for Manchester City, and we are quite certain he has no plans to ring out the season on the 27 goals he has managed at this point.

Bristol City claimed all three points four times in their last 10 home matches across all tournaments, while also drawing four along the way. They endured defeat in two of the games in this run. Manchester City won five of their last 10 games away, while drawing two and losing three in this series of matches. Manchester City scored the first goal of the match in eight of their last 10 away games, while Bristol City did the same in six of their previous 10 games on home soil.

Over 2.5 goals came out four times in the previous ten matches across all tournaments for Bristol City, who scored an average of 1.7 goals along the way. Over 2.5 goals happened in six of the last ten games for Manchester City, who scored 2.1 times on average in those matches.