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Manchester United v Manchester City : Premier League match betting preview, prediction and odds

Sat 17th Jan, 12:30 BST, Old Trafford, Manchester

Saturday lunch time at the Old Trafford, and it’s a English Premier League clash between Manchester United and Manchester City. Ruben Filipe Marques Amorim and Josep Guardiola i Sala will be doing all they can to guide their side to the win. For every Premier League match, KickOff delves into the statistics for all of the biggest markets. Meaningful stats, including head-to-head results, are then given alongside the best odds.

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Best Tip: Both teams to score

Studying our match predictions, bookmakers' odds and relevant stats, there's one market which catches the eye for this fixture: both teams to score. In Man Utd and Man City we have two sides going head-to-head that regularly score, but equally have trouble shutting the opposition out, and we expect them to prove that on Saturday lunch time. BTTS – yes best odds: 1.57.

An away win looks like the most likely outcome in the win/draw/win market, with our predictive algorithm suggesting there’s a 45% chance of Man City coming away with a win.

Checkout the hundreds of tips picked but our top win/draw/win tipsters

Predictions	Bet365	Coral
Man Utd 32%	4.20	3.80
Draw 24%	3.80	4.00
Man City 45%	1.75	1.85
Draw 1-1 11%	8.50	7.50
Man City 2-1 9%	9.50	8.00
Man City 1-0 8%	12.00	9.50
Man Utd 2-1 7%	15.00	12.00
Man City 2-0 7%	12.00	10.00
Draw 2-2 6%	13.00	11.00
Man Utd 1-0 6%	21.00	13.00
Man City 3-1 5%	13.00	11.00
Draw 0-0 5%	19.00	15.00
Man Utd 2-0 4%	29.00	19.00
Man City 3-0 4%	17.00	15.00
Man City 3-2 4%	21.00	15.00
Man Utd 3-1 3%	34.00	21.00
Man Utd 3-2 3%	34.00	23.00
Man City 4-1 2%	26.00	19.00
Over 2.5 Goals 60%	1.53	1.50
Under 2.5 Goals 40%	2.50	2.45
Home 1st Goal 47%	2.30	2.38
Away 1st Goal 51%	1.57	1.62
No 1st Goal 3%	19.00	13.00
BTTS - Yes 61%	1.50	1.53
BTTS - No 39%	2.50	2.40
BTTS - Home Win 18%	6.50	5.75
BTTS - Draw 19%	4.50	4.40
BTTS - Away Win 25%	3.00	3.00
Home/draw 55%	2.00	1.95
Away/draw 68%	1.22	1.25
Home/away 76%	1.25	1.25
Over 1.5 Goals 81%	1.14	1.15
Under 1.5 Goals 19%	5.50	4.80
Over 3.5 Goals 37%	2.20	2.20
Under 3.5 Goals 63%	1.67	1.60
Over 4.5 Goals 20%	4.00	3.80
Under 4.5 Goals 80%	1.25	1.22
Over 5.5 Goals 9%	7.00	7.00
Under 5.5 Goals 91%	1.10	1.08
Over 0.5 Goals 95%	1.02	1.02
Under 0.5 Goals 5%	19.00	15.00
Home DNB 48%	3.25	2.80
Away DNB 61%	1.33	1.40
Man Utd win to nil 14%	10.00	-
Man City win to nil 20%	3.75	-
Man Utd / Man Utd 13%	7.00	5.50
Man Utd / Man City 4%	21.00	17.00
Man Utd / Draw 6%	15.00	12.00
Draw / Man Utd 9%	10.00	8.50
Draw / Man City 15%	5.50	5.25
Draw / Draw 13%	7.00	6.00
Man City / Man Utd 3%	29.00	23.00
Man City / Man City 30%	2.75	2.70
Man City / Draw 6%	15.00	12.00

Win / draw / win Premier League table

Man Utd have played 20 matches so far this season and are in 6th position in the league.

Performance against teams above them in the league

5 of those games have come against teams above them in the table. They have lost 3 games, drawn zero and won 2. Man Utd have conceded 8 goals, scored 5, failed to score in 2 matches and kept no clean sheets.

Home league performance

Man Utd have played 10 games at home, winning 5, drawing 3 and losing 2 fixtures. They have scored 18 goals, conceded 13 goals, kept 2 clean sheets and failed to score 2 times in home league games.

Man City lay in 2nd place on 42 points in the Premier League league table having played 20 matches.

Performance against teams below them in the league

They have played 19 games against teams below them in the table, winning 13, drawing 2 and losing 4 games. They have scored 43 goals and kept 9 clean sheets against lower placed opposition. Man City have conceded 17 goals and have failed to score in 3 matches.

Away league performance

Man City have played 10 away games, winning 5, drawing 2 and losing 3 games. They have scored an average of 1.8 goals per away game and conceded an average 1.1 goals per away game.

BTTS yes BTTS no BTTS yes BTTS no Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Over 0.5 Under 0.5 Over 1.5 Under 1.5 Over 2.5 Under 2.5 Over 3.5 Under 3.5 Over 4.5 Under 4.5 Over 5.5 Under 5.5 For 0-0 Against Won Draw Lost	Man Utd Man City
Results by League Table

	TEAM	PLD	W	D	L	GD	PTS	HOME	AWAY	HOME	AWAY
1	Arsenal	20	15	3	2	26	48	l 0-1A	Jan 25	Apr 18	d 1-1F
2	Man City	20	13	3	4	26	42	Jan 17	l 3-0A	-	-
3	A Villa	20	13	3	4	9	42	Mar 14	l 2-1F	May 24	l 1-0A
4	Liverpool	20	10	4	6	4	34	May 2	w 1-2F	w 3-0F	Feb 8
5	Chelsea	20	8	7	5	11	31	w 2-1F	Apr 18	d 1-1F	Apr 11
6	Man Utd	20	8	7	5	4	31	-	-	w 3-0F	Jan 17
7	Brentford	20	9	3	8	4	30	Apr 25	l 3-1A	May 9	w 0-1F
8	Sunderland	20	7	9	4	2	30	w 2-0F	May 9	w 3-0F	d 0-00-0
9	Newcastle	20	8	5	7	4	29	w 1-0F	Mar 4	Feb 21	l 2-1A
10	Brighton	20	7	7	6	3	28	w 4-2F	May 24	Jan 7	l 2-1F
11	Fulham	20	8	4	8	-1	28	Feb 1	d 1-1F	Feb 11	w 4-5F
12	Everton	20	8	4	8	-2	28	l 0-1A	Feb 23	w 2-0F	May 2
13	Spurs	20	7	6	7	4	27	Feb 7	d 2-2F	l 0-2A	Feb 1
14	C Palace	20	7	6	7	-1	27	Feb 28	w 1-2A	Mar 21	w 0-3F
15	Bournemouth	20	5	8	7	-7	23	d 4-4F	Mar 21	w 3-1F	May 17
16	Leeds	20	5	7	8	-7	22	Apr 11	d 1-1A	w 3-2F	Feb 28
17	Nottm Forest	20	5	3	12	-14	18	May 17	d 2-2F	Mar 4	w 1-2F
18	West Ham	20	3	5	12	-20	14	d 1-1F	Feb 10	w 3-0F	Mar 14
19	Burnley	20	3	3	14	-19	12	w 3-2F	Jan 7	w 5-1F	Apr 25
20	Wolves	20	1	3	16	-26	6	d 1-1F	w 1-4F	Jan 24	w 0-4F

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Win / draw / win form

Home

Overall

Goals: Scored

Conceded

Games: Scored

13 / 20

Conceded

16 / 20

Clean sheets

4 / 20

Failed to score

7 / 20

Won

Draw

Lost

HOME FORM Win / Draw / Win
Man Utd	1 - 1	Wolves
Man Utd	1 - 0	Newcastle
Man Utd	4 - 4	Bournemouth
Man Utd	1 - 1	West Ham
Man Utd	0 - 1	Everton
Man Utd	4 - 2	Brighton
Man Utd	2 - 0	Sunderland
Man Utd	2 - 1	Chelsea
Man Utd	3 - 2	Burnley
Man Utd	0 - 1	Arsenal
Man Utd	2 - 0	A Villa
Man Utd	0 - 2	West Ham
Man Utd	0 - 1	Wolves
Man Utd	0 - 0	Man City
Man Utd	1 - 1	Arsenal
Man Utd	3 - 2	Ipswich
Man Utd	0 - 2	C Palace
Man Utd	1 - 3	Brighton
Man Utd	3 - 1	Southampton
Man Utd	0 - 2	Newcastle

Goals: Scored

Conceded

Games: Scored

17 / 20

Conceded

18 / 20

Clean sheets

2 / 20

Failed to score

3 / 20

Won

Draw

Lost

OVERALL FORM Win / Draw / Win
A	Man Utd	1 - 1	Leeds
H	Man Utd	1 - 1	Wolves
H	Man Utd	1 - 0	Newcastle
A	Man Utd	1 - 2	A Villa
H	Man Utd	4 - 4	Bournemouth
A	Man Utd	4 - 1	Wolves
H	Man Utd	1 - 1	West Ham
A	Man Utd	2 - 1	C Palace
H	Man Utd	0 - 1	Everton
A	Man Utd	2 - 2	Spurs
A	Man Utd	2 - 2	Nottm Forest
H	Man Utd	4 - 2	Brighton
A	Man Utd	2 - 1	Liverpool
H	Man Utd	2 - 0	Sunderland
A	Man Utd	1 - 3	Brentford
H	Man Utd	2 - 1	Chelsea
A	Man Utd	0 - 3	Man City
H	Man Utd	3 - 2	Burnley
A	Man Utd	1 - 1	Fulham
H	Man Utd	0 - 1	Arsenal

Away

Overall

Goals: Scored

Conceded

Games: Scored

15 / 20

Conceded

9 / 20

Clean sheets

11 / 20

Failed to score

5 / 20

Won

Draw

Lost

AWAY FORM Win / Draw / Win
Sunderland	0 - 0	Man City
Nottm Forest	1 - 2	Man City
C Palace	0 - 3	Man City
Fulham	4 - 5	Man City
Newcastle	2 - 1	Man City
A Villa	1 - 0	Man City
Brentford	0 - 1	Man City
Arsenal	1 - 1	Man City
Brighton	2 - 1	Man City
Wolves	0 - 4	Man City
Fulham	0 - 2	Man City
Southampton	0 - 0	Man City
Everton	0 - 2	Man City
Man Utd	0 - 0	Man City
Nottm Forest	1 - 0	Man City
Spurs	0 - 1	Man City
Arsenal	5 - 1	Man City
Ipswich	0 - 6	Man City
Brentford	2 - 2	Man City
Leicester	0 - 2	Man City

Goals: Scored

Conceded

Games: Scored

17 / 20

Conceded

11 / 20

Clean sheets

9 / 20

Failed to score

3 / 20

Won

OVERALL FORM Win / Draw / Win
H	Man City	1 - 1	Chelsea
A	Man City	0 - 0	Sunderland
A	Man City	2 - 1	Nottm Forest
H	Man City	3 - 0	West Ham
A	Man City	3 - 0	C Palace
H	Man City	3 - 0	Sunderland
A	Man City	5 - 4	Fulham
H	Man City	3 - 2	Leeds
A	Man City	1 - 2	Newcastle
H	Man City	3 - 0	Liverpool
H	Man City	3 - 1	Bournemouth
A	Man City	0 - 1	A Villa
H	Man City	2 - 0	Everton
A	Man City	1 - 0	Brentford
H	Man City	5 - 1	Burnley
A	Man City	1 - 1	Arsenal
H	Man City	3 - 0	Man Utd
A	Man City	1 - 2	Brighton
H	Man City	0 - 2	Spurs
A	Man City	4 - 0	Wolves

Win / draw / win head to head (H2H)

Man Utd

Man City

Goals: Scored

Games: Scored

20 / 28

19 / 28

Clean sheets

9 / 28

8 / 28

MNU

MCI

FIXTURE HISTORY AT Man Utd
Draw	0 - 0	Draw
	0 - 3	Man City
Man Utd	2 - 1
	0 - 2	Man City
Draw	0 - 0	Draw
Man Utd	2 - 0
	0 - 2	Man City
	1 - 2	Man City
	1 - 2	Man City
Draw	0 - 0	Draw
Man Utd	4 - 2
	0 - 3	Man City
	1 - 2	Man City
	1 - 6	Man City
Man Utd	2 - 1
Man Utd	4 - 3
Man Utd	2 - 0
	1 - 2	Man City
Man Utd	3 - 1
Draw	1 - 1	Draw
Draw	0 - 0	Draw
Man Utd	3 - 1
Draw	1 - 1	Draw
Draw	1 - 1	Draw
Man Utd	1 - 0
Man Utd	5 - 0
Man Utd	2 - 0
Man Utd	2 - 1

Man City

Man Utd

Goals: Scored

Games: Scored

19 / 29

23 / 29

Clean sheets

6 / 29

10 / 29

MNU

MCI

FIXTURE HISTORY AT Man City
Man City	3 - 0
	1 - 2	Man Utd
Man City	3 - 1
Man City	6 - 3
Man City	4 - 1
	0 - 2	Man Utd
	1 - 2	Man Utd
Man City	3 - 1
	2 - 3	Man Utd
Draw	0 - 0	Draw
	0 - 1	Man Utd
Man City	1 - 0
Man City	4 - 1
	2 - 3	Man Utd
Man City	1 - 0
Draw	0 - 0	Draw
	0 - 1	Man Utd
	0 - 1	Man Utd
Man City	1 - 0
	0 - 1	Man Utd
Man City	3 - 1
	0 - 2	Man Utd
Man City	4 - 1
Man City	3 - 1
	0 - 1	Man Utd
	2 - 3	Man Utd
	0 - 3	Man Utd
	2 - 3	Man Utd
Draw	1 - 1	Draw

Goal Statistics

Manchester City's defensive record is to be admired, Josep Guardiola's men having conceded 1 or less in 6 consecutive English Premier League games. An underwhelming PG rating of 1.4 for Manchester United makes sense in this context.

	Man Utd 6th	Man City 2nd
	Kickoff prediction
Kickoff prediction	1.4 goals	1.7 goals
	Scoring probability
Scoring probability	0 25% 1 35% 2 24% 3 11% 4+ There is a 75% probability that Man Utd will score 1 or more goals	0 18% 1 31% 2 26% 3 15% 4+ 9% There is a 82% probability that Man City will score 1 or more goals

	20 home / away league games
20 home / away league games	-15 Man Utd have scored 15% fewer goals at home than predicted	=0 Man City’s goalscoring when away has been inline with predictions
	1.4 average goals scored	1.7 average goals scored
	1.4 conceded	1.0 conceded

Attack defence ratings
Premier League - 2025/2026 season

MNU

MCI

11%

better

view stats

Games scored	17		17
Failed to score	3		3
Scored first	14		16
Goals scored	34		44
Avg. goals scored	1.7		2.2
Avg. shots per game	12		10
Avg. shots per goal	7		5
Conversion rate for	15		22
Avg. XG for	1.9		1.8
KickOff rating		+11%

MNU

MCI

37%

better

view stats

Games conceded	18		11
Clean sheets	2		9
Conceded first	6		3
Goals conceded	30		18
Avg. goals conceded	1.5		0.9
Avg. shots/game conceded	8		7
Avg. shots/goal conceded	6		7
Conversion rate against	18%		13%
Avg. XG against	1.4		1.1
KickOff rating		+37%

Man Utd v Man City Premier League lLine ups will show here when available.

Man Utd Premier League squad statistics 2025/2026

Overall

Attack

Defence

Most starts	Most goals	Most assists	Most cards
20	6	7	7
L Shaw	B Mbeumo	B Fernandes	Casemiro

Players	Appserances	goals	Assists	cards
L Yoro DEF	20			-
L Shaw DEF	20		1	3 -
P. Chinazaekpere Dorgu DEF	19	1	2	5 -
D Dalot DEF	18	1	2	2 -
Casemiro MID	18	4	1	6 1
B Fernandes MID	17	5	7	2 -
M Cunha FWD	17	4	1	1 -
B Sesko FWD	16	2	1	1 -
B Mbeumo FWD	16	6	1	3 -
M Mount MID	15	3		-
A Diallo FWD	15	2	2	1 -
S Lammens GLK	14			-
M Ugarte MID	14			1 -
M Ligt DEF	13	1		-
J Zirkzee FWD	13	2	1	1 -
K Mainoo MID	11			-
A. Heaven DEF	9		1	1 -
N Mazraoui DEF	9			1 -
L Martínez DEF	8			-
H Maguire DEF	8	1	1	-
A Bayındır GLK	6			-
T Fredricson DEF	1			-
T Malacia DEF	1			-

Most goals	Most shots on target	Most assists	Most big chances
6	24	7	9
B Mbeumo	B Mbeumo	B Fernandes	B Fernandes

Players	goals	shots on	Assists	big chances
B Mbeumo FWD	6	24	1	3
B Fernandes MID	5	13	7	9
Casemiro MID	4	6	1	3
M Cunha FWD	4	20	1	2
M Mount MID	3	5		1
B Sesko FWD	2	12	1
A Diallo FWD	2	9	2	4
J Zirkzee FWD	2	6	1	2
P. Chinazaekpere Dorgu DEF	1	4	2	4
D Dalot DEF	1	3	2	2
M Ligt DEF	1	3		2
H Maguire DEF	1	1	1	1
L Yoro DEF		1
L Shaw DEF			1	2
M Ugarte MID		1
A. Heaven DEF			1	1
N Mazraoui DEF		1
L Martínez DEF				1
A Bayındır GLK				1

Most passes	Most tackles	Most duels won
1067	43	112
L Shaw	Casemiro	P. Chinazaekpere Dorgu

Players	passes	tackles	duels won
L Shaw DEF	1067	41	80
B Fernandes MID	977	30	79
Casemiro MID	738	43	88
L Yoro DEF	637	22	55
M Ligt DEF	611	19	73
D Dalot DEF	528	25	67
A Diallo FWD	508	22	77
B Mbeumo FWD	484	13	51
M Cunha FWD	448	18	88
S Lammens GLK	437	1	8
P. Chinazaekpere Dorgu DEF	371	37	112
M Ugarte MID	333	33	58
M Mount MID	309	14	33
A. Heaven DEF	303	13	35
L Martínez DEF	289	5	12
N Mazraoui DEF	263	14	29
B Sesko FWD	188	5	48
A Bayındır GLK	177		5
J Zirkzee FWD	174	7	30
H Maguire DEF	159	2	16
K Mainoo MID	138	6	14
T Malacia DEF	2	1	1
T Fredricson DEF	1

Man City Premier League squad statistics 2025/2026

Overall

Attack

Defence

Most starts	Most goals	Most assists	Most cards
20	19	7	5
E Haaland	E Haaland	R Cherki	B Silva

Players	Appserances	goals	Assists	cards
R Dias DEF	20	2		2 -
B Silva MID	20		2	5 -
E Haaland FWD	20	19	4	-
N. O'Reilly DEF	19	1	3	3 -
T Reijnders MID	19	5	2	2 -
M Nunes DEF	18	1	3	3 -
N González MID	18	1		4 -
P Foden MID	18	7	2	3 -
G Donnarumma GLK	17			4 -
J Doku FWD	17	1	4	-
J Gvardiol DEF	16	2	2	2 -
R Cherki MID	15	2	7	1 -
S Sávio FWD	15		1	1 -
N Aké DEF	10			1 -
O Marmoush FWD	10		1	-
O Bobb FWD	9		1	1 -
R Lewis DEF	8		1	-
Rodri MID	8			-
J Stones DEF	7			-
A. Khusanov DEF	6			1 -
R Nouri DEF	5			1 -
J Trafford GLK	3			-
M Kovacic MID	1			-

Most goals	Most shots on target	Most assists	Most big chances
19	39	7	11
E Haaland	E Haaland	R Cherki	R Cherki

Players	goals	shots on	Assists	big chances
E Haaland FWD	19	39	4	6
P Foden MID	7	13	2	6
T Reijnders MID	5	13	2	4
R Dias DEF	2	4
J Gvardiol DEF	2	5	2	1
R Cherki MID	2	6	7	11
N. O'Reilly DEF	1	4	3	5
M Nunes DEF	1	1	3	3
N González MID	1	2		1
J Doku FWD	1	9	4	7
B Silva MID			2	4
S Sávio FWD		7	1
N Aké DEF				1
O Marmoush FWD		3	1	2
O Bobb FWD			1
R Lewis DEF			1	2
Rodri MID		1		1

Most passes	Most tackles	Most duels won
1398	48	98
R Dias	N. O'Reilly	N. O'Reilly

Players	passes	tackles	duels won
R Dias DEF	1398	8	64
M Nunes DEF	1204	40	92
N González MID	1074	30	85
J Gvardiol DEF	995	18	53
B Silva MID	902	21	44
P Foden MID	847	21	63
N. O'Reilly DEF	715	48	98
T Reijnders MID	626	8	37
R Cherki MID	568	17	56
G Donnarumma GLK	417	1	14
J Doku FWD	402	11	93
Rodri MID	386	14	34
J Stones DEF	259		11
S Sávio FWD	256	5	24
N Aké DEF	245	8	20
E Haaland FWD	216	10	77
O Bobb FWD	207	8	36
A. Khusanov DEF	189	9	16
R Lewis DEF	156	3	9
J Trafford GLK	107	2	5
R Nouri DEF	106	9	15
O Marmoush FWD	60	3	15
M Kovacic MID	22		1