STOKE CITY v MANCHESTER CITY
Monday 12th March 2018 – Kickoff: 2000hrs
Football – England – Premier League Betting Tips
Football’s a funny game, and football fans are a fickle bunch at the best of times, as the perception of Paul Lambert’s tenure at Stoke City has been deemed a relative success so far with Stoke City losing just once in their last six league matches.
However, this is the sort of rear-guard action that Tony Pulis made a name for himself while in charge at the Bet365 Stadium (then, the Britannia Stadium), but he ultimately got his marching orders as fans started demanding more, with Mark Hughes coming and going thereafter.
Now Stoke find themselves in worse trouble as they sit in the bottom three of the Premier League, and although they’ve tightened things up following Lambert’s appointment, they’ve drawn four of their last five and managed just one win from their last 10 overall, which was a 2-0 home win over Huddersfield Town.
Manchester City suffered only their fourth defeat in all competitions in this successful campaign during the week when they lost 2-1 at home to Swiss side, Basel, in what was widely regarded as a ‘dead rubber’ second leg at the Etihad Stadium after City had recorded a heavy 4-0 win in the first leg.
Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, rotated his squad accordingly and although they lost the match, it was a tactical decision which allowed the big guns to gain some much needed rest, and re-charge their batteries for the trip to the Potteries on Monday night.
City possess an impressive away record of 11-2-1 32/10 and although they’ll be missing Aguero due to a knee injury, Jesus will return to spearhead an attack that’s flanked by Silva and Sane.
Pick: Manchester City HT/FT @ 1.75 Bet Victor
