Ipswich vs Man City Preview: Team News & Prediction

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Ipswich Town have found something of a spark of late but did recently suffer a defeat in midweek at home to Brighton and Hove Albion as talk of Manchester City’s resurgence may well have been premature with the defending champions pegged back by Brentford the other day.
Kick-off date/time: Sunday 19th January, 2025: UK – 4:30pm / US ET – 11:30am / US PT – 8:30am
How to watch on TV: UK – Not televised / US – USA Network
How to watch online: UK – Cannot be streamed / US – Telemundo
Ipswich Team News: Philogene available
Kieran McKenna has confirmed that new signing Jaden Philogene, who joined from Aston Villa for a fee believed to be £20 million earlier this week, will be available after being in the stands for their clash with Brighton on Thursday.
Club captain Samy Morsy was rested the other day with Kalvin Phillips, described by McKenna, as 'coming into some good form' getting the nod but Phillips will drop out again this weekend and he ineligible to face his parent club.
Predicted XI (4-2-3-1): Walton; O'Shea, Woolfenden, Greaves, Davis; Morsy, Cajuste; Johnson, Hutchinson, Philogene; Delap
Unavailable: Tuanzebe (Injured), Phillips (Ineligible), Ogbene (Injured), Chaplin (Injured), Szmodics (Injured)
Questionable:
Man City Team News: Haaland fitness issues
After it was reported that he was set to sign a new deal at Manchester City this week, Pep Guardiola was quizzed about Erling Haaland's fitness and said 'some players finish with some problems, like every game, and we'll see.'
Both Ruben Dias and Oscar Bobb have returned to training as they build their fitness levels back up but they remain without Rodri and John Stones, whilst Kyle Walker is once again expected to be unavailable after handing in a transfer request.
Predicted XI (4-2-3-1): Ortega; Lewis, Akanji, Ake, Gvardiol; Silva, Kovacic; Foden, De Bruyne, Savio; Haaland
Unavailable: Stones (Injured), Rodri (Injured)
Questionable: Dias (Injured), Bobb (Injured), Haaland (Injured)
Ipswich vs Man City Prediction
Ipswich Town, as mentioned, come into this one on the back of a defeat to Brighton and Hove Albion as they went down by two goals to nil at Portman Road due to goals from Kaoru Mitoma and Georginio Rutter. The Tractor Boys remain just outside of the bottom three and the relegation places ahead of this match day, though, sitting above Wolverhampton Wanderers on goal difference. Manchester City went 2-0 up at Brentford as they looked like making it a fourth successive win in the Premier League before conceding twice late on to Yoane Wissa and then Christian Norgaard to be forced to leave the capital city with a point. Ipswich, especially Omari Hutchinson and Liam Delap, will fancy their chances of getting in behind a wide open City defence by simply running at the faltering defending champions, albeit the visitors’ sheer quality should surely see them over the line.
Ipswich vs Man City Tip: Man City to win & both teams to score