Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola saw his new star signing Erling Haaland score twice against West Ham on his debut last Sunday
TEAM NEWS
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is once again without defender Aymeric Laporte, who is recovering from knee surgery.
City, however, have no new injury worries.
Bournemouth’s new defensive signing Marcos Senesi could be involved following his arrival from Feyenoord this week.
Ryan Fredericks and Joe Rothwell will have to wait for their debuts as the couple is still injured.
CHRIS SUTTON’S PREDICTION
Erling Haaland will lick his lips beforehand. If Manchester City scores the first goal, Bournemouth will be in trouble.
I suspect the cherries will try to limit the damage as they fall back, but I’m not sure that will work.
Bournemouth are the biggest team in the Premier League – and they are likely to take the biggest hits this weekend.
Forecast: 5-0
Chris’ full predictions against Kasabian’s Serge Pizzorno
MATCH FACTS
head to head
- Manchester City’s record of 10 wins from 10 Premier League games against Bournemouth is the best 100 per cent win rate in Premier League history.
- Bournemouth are without a win in all 16 league games against Manchester City (U2, L14). That’s the highest score one team has played against another in English league history without winning, tied with Halifax Town against Cardiff City and Wrexham against Crystal Palace.
- The Cherries led just eight total minutes in those 16 league games when Charlie Daniels gave them a brief lead in August 2017.
Manchester City
- Manchester City have lost just their first league home game in one of the last 22 seasons, which was a 5-2 loss to Leicester in 2020/21. Their last four opening home games in the league have scored 23 goals at an average of 5.8 per game.
- City have scored at least twice in each of their last 10 Premier League games. They are responsible for four of the 13 times a team has had such a run.
- At Borussia Dortmund, Erling Haaland scored nine goals in his five Bundesliga home games against promoted teams, an average of one goal every 41 minutes.
- Guardiola has lost just three of his 73 Premier League games as Manchester City manager to English managers.
Bournemouth
- Bournemouth are aiming to become just the fourth promoted team to win their first two games of a Premier League season, emulating Bolton (2001-02), Hull (2016-17) and Huddersfield (2017-18).
- They have won two of their five Premier League away games against the reigning champions, although they have both lost to Manchester City in such games.
- Scott Parker could become the first manager in top-flight history to win away with two different promoted teams at the reigning champions, having done so with Fulham against Liverpool in 2020-21.
- However, he has lost all four of his managerial meetings with Manchester City in all competitions, all of which were with Fulham between 2019 and 2021.
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