Manchester United vs Manchester City
England – Carabao Cup
Date: Wednesday, 6 January 2021
Kick-off at 19:45 UK/ 20:45 CET
Venue: Old Trafford
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Manchester United have the chance to avenge their defeat to Manchester City from last season's League Cup semi-final when they once again entertain rivals at Old Trafford on Thursday (7/1) early in the morning.
United, who won 1-0 at the Etihad Stadium in the first stage of the last smooth semi-final, had to be eliminated as the 3-1 defeat they received at Old Trafford in the second meeting. This will be the fourth semi-final to bring cities together in the League Cup, having taken place before the 1969/1970, 2009/10 and 2019/20 seasons.
Team News
Manchester United
Manchester United will once again be without the services of Veteran Striker Edinson Cavani, who will serve the second of his ban on three games. Phil Jones is also excluded with an injury. Outside the duo, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has a complete team to choose from when Manchester City comes on.
The boss of RED Devils Devils usually chose to use a defensive configuration of three men for major games during his mandate at the club. However, given the shape that his team was late, Solskjaer is likely to abstain from tinkering a lot of tactics or staff in front of Wednesday's match.
There should be a change of purpose however, with Dean Henderson at David de GEA for the cup tie. Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Luke Shaw are likely to be selected as the backstart, while the same thing happens for the duet in the center-back of Harry Maguire and Eric Bailly, with the latter impressor in the last Matches. Scott McTominay and Fred should be offered again again while the shape that Paul Pogba is, it is also just about guaranteeing.
Bruno Fernandes is an indispensable figure for United in the third striker, so that it should also start on Wednesday, which means that hosts could deploy a midfield diamond, although we can see Pogba derive from the left regularly. Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford will be the two showers.
Manchester City
Unlike his counterpart in the canoe of the opposition, PEP Guardiola has a number of questions from the list to cope with Wednesday's contest. As much as six players will not be missed because of coronavirus with Gabriel Jesus, Kyle Walker, Ederson Moraes, Tommy Doyle, Eric Garcia and Ferran Torres Very Travar work in recent days.
Outside of them, the manager will also face the absence of Aymeric Laporte who breastfeeds a thigh injury while Nathan Ake is also a doubt because of a muscular issue. Given the depth of the Manchester City team, Guardiola will always be able to develop a great unit to Old Trafford.
Zack Steffen, who made his debut from the Premier League on weekends, was the go-to man for the purpose of the Carabao Cup Cityzens and will begin Wednesday. With Laporte and Garcia unavailable, Guardiola will be forced to continue with Ruben Dias and John Stones as his centers as Joao Cancelo and Oleksandr Zinchenko begin as being full of back.
After finding a system that worked perfectly against Chelsea at the weekend, Guardiola is likely to be held on Wednesday. Rori will sit the deepest of the three central circles while Ilkay Gundogan and Phil Foden, who will go to a central role at the detriment of Bernardo Silva, should have the license to move forward and join the attacks.
Raheem Sterling and Riyad mahrez, which is likely to enter the beginning of XI, should use as wide players while Kevin de Bruyne, who was the show star on weekends, continues to function as false-nine. Sergio Aguero will be a bench option for The Cityzens.
Predicted Lineups
Manchester United possible starting XI:
De Gea; Wan-Bissaka, Bailly, Maguire, Shaw; McTominay, Fred, Pogba; Fernandes; Martial, Rashford
Manchester City possible starting XI:
Steffen; Cancelo, Dias, Stones, Mendy; Rodri, Gundogan; Mahrez, De Bruyne, Foden; Aguero
Head To Head
These two sides have already met once this season at Old Trafford, although the fully obliging partial print goalless does not accurately represent the excitement that this device usually provides.
Wednesday will be the fourth time that the two rivals met in the semi-finals of this competition - a joint record alongside the Derby of Northern London - and sees them do so for the second year in a row, with the winning man 3 -2 on the aggregate last season.
However, the United Man is now undefeated in their last three games against Man City in all competitions, keeping clean sheets in all these and could go four without defeat against their rivals for the first time since February 2011.
Manchester United vs Manchester City Prediction
The Red Devils had won five of his last six global games and they also marked two or more goals in nine of their last games. At home, they are also on a winning race with three lights and marked nine goals in the process. In addition, their last match in the competition had resulted in a 2-0 win at home, against Everton.
On the other hand, their counterparts are on a four-game winning race, and they were also undefeated in 20 of their last 21 global games, and they had marked a total of seven goals of their last two trips of the road. against Chelsea and Arsenal.
They also lost once on the road, since July. And in the first round, they had defeated arsenal on the road with a 1-4 pointing card. Finally, a vast majority of previous H2H clashes had objectives in many goals and, with that being the semifinal of a major competition (a one-legged tie) between two rivals, expects a goal goal.
Manchester United Vs Manchester City Betting Tips
The two teams to mark @ 1,67 (2/3)
More than 2.5 Correspondence goals and both teams for marking @ 2,00 (1/1).
