Manchester City Have Less Capital When They Travel To West Ham United Headquarters

JAKARTA - Manchester City will open their Premier League campaign in the 2022/2023 season by visiting West Ham United.

The duel will take place at the London Stadium on Sunday, August 7 tonight. The match kicks off at 22.30 WIB.

Manchester City will certainly be looking to defend their league title with an impressive start to the campaign. Victory looks will not be difficult for them to pocket.

Moreover, Pep Guardiola's team has been strengthened by a number of their new players who arrived during the summer transfer window. Among them is Erling Haaland who fills the front line.

However, City entered this match with a less than good capital. The reason is, they just lost 1-3 to their league title rivals Liverpool last season in the Community Shield last weekend.

The Citizens also only played two games during pre-season. They beat Club America 2-1 on 20 July and only narrowly won 1-0 over Bayern Munich three days later.

In addition, West Ham as the host is also unlikely to give up three points just like that. Moreover, their campaign last season was so impressive.

They successfully finished the league competition by finishing in seventh place.

In addition, the Hammers also successfully penetrated the fifth round of the FA Cup, League Cup quarter-finals and Europa League semifinals.

For that, they will of course try to approach the top four of the league this season. That hope can be realized if you look at their spending in the transfer market this season.

The team made by David Moyes was recorded to have brought in Gianluca Scamacca, Nayef Aguerd, Flynn Downes, Maxwel Cornet, and Alphonse Areola. Apart from that they also managed to keep Declan Rice in the squad.

Estimated Formation of West Ham vs Man City:

West Ham (4-2-3-1): Fabianski; Coufal, Zouma, Dawson, Cresswell; Rice, Soucek; Bowen, Fornals, Benrahma; Antonio.

Manchester City (4-3-3): Ederson; Walker, Dias, Ake, Cancelo; De Bruyne, Rodri, Bernardo; Mahrez, Haaland, Foden.

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