Southampton vs Manchester City Prediction, Tips & Odds – Jan. 11, 2023 21:00 CET
Southampton vs Manchester City Prediction 11.01.2023. Manchester City is looking for their seventh Carabao Cup semi-final in the last 10 years and their opponent is the club which hasn’t had a great start to new life with a new manager.
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Southampton vs Manchester City Odds
Southampton vs Manchester City 1×2: 15.0/6.50/1.20
Asian Handicap (+1.5/-1.5): 2.050/1.850
Total Over/Under (2.5): 1.44/2.70
Odds via Bet365 Sportsbook.
Southampton Team News
Nathan Jones is only six games in charge of Southampton and fans are already against him and his style of play. With him as a coach Southampton has four consecutive defeats in the Premier League and two wins in Carabao Cup, which is the only positive thing this season.
In the Premier League Southampton is in a run of six consecutive defeats and seven games without a win. They have won only one game since the end of August. The situation is terrible and they are 20th in the table with 12 points and three wins after 18 games.
Nathan Jones come in from Championship, without any experience in the Premier League, and that’s maybe a wrong choice now. He is a very talented manager who started in the English fourth division, but this is probably a too big task for him.
Southampton concede a goal in every game since he came but the positive is that they scored in every game but one. Southampton played very poorly against Forest and was without a shot on target for 90 minutes at home. The game before that they had only three shots against Fulham.
Nathan Jones changes formations, rotates players, and still tries to find the best solution but this part of the season is very important for Southampton. In the next couple of weeks, they have games against Everton, Aston Villa, Brentford, and Wolves. Every game is a final.
Manchester City Team News
Again Manchester City responds fantastically to a bad result against Everton. They beat Chelsea two times in a space of a couple of days. First in the league and after that in the FA Cup.
Manchester City is five games without a defeat in all competitions, they come close to Arsenal on five points, go into the next round of the FA Cup, and have another great opportunity to qualify for the semi-final of the Carabao Cup.
The players are returning from the injuries and Pep now has almost the whole squad to choose from. Only Ruben Dias is still injured. This is a key in this part of the season where Man City has games against Manchester United, Tottenham twice and Arsenal in space of 26 days.
Manchester City is the most successful club in Carabao Cup in recent years. They had won this competition six times since 2013 and every time when they skip the fourth round they ended with a trophy. In the previous nine seasons, they won the competition six times and three times were eliminated in the 4th round.
Because of the big Manchester derby that comes on Saturday, Pep will probably rotate a couple of first-team players. Ilkay Gundogan, Kevin De Bruyne, Nathan Ake, and Erling Haaland didn’t play against Chelsea and they can start this game.
Southampton vs Manchester City H2H
08.10.22 – Manchester City : Southampton – 4:0
20.03.22 – Southampton : Manchester City – 1:4
22.01.22 – Southampton : Manchester City – 1:1
18.09.21 – Manchester City : Southampton – 0:0
10.03.21 – Manchester City : Southampton – 5:0
Injuries and suspensions
Southampton: Armel Bella-Kotchap is injured, and Stuart Armstrong, Juan Larios, and Theo Walcott are questionable.
Manchester City: Ruben Dias is injured.
Southampton vs Manchester City Prediction
Southampton is in a very bad moment in the season and the new life with Nathan Jones didn’t start well. They struggle in the league in they are in terrible form. On the other hand, Manchester City came into this game after two, we can say, easy victories against Chelsea and they want another Carabao Cup trophy.
There is no doubt who is the favourite here to qualify for the semi-final and for Southampton and Nathan Jones will be better to be focused only on the Premier League.
Kick-off Time: Wednesday, 11.01.2023, 21:00 CET
Prediction: Man City/Man City
Odds: 1.72
Sportsbook: Bet365
