Manchester City VS Brentford: Ace with double iron waists, Foden + Doku leads, Haaland charges

The 7th round of the new season of the Premier League will stage a focus battle, with Manchester City under Guardiola visiting to challenge the powerful "Little Bee" Brentford.

After Guardiola changed his tactical style, Manchester City gradually showed good signs. In the last three rounds of the Premier League, they scored 7 points. The only draw against Arsenal, who was strong on paper. At present, after six rounds of Premier League games, Manchester City has 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, with 10 points, temporarily ranking 7th in the Premier League standings, and only 5 points behind Liverpool. The new Premier League season has just begun, and there are many opportunities for Manchester City to make a comeback.

In this round, Manchester City should not take it lightly against Brentford, whose strength cannot be underestimated. After 6 rounds in the first six rounds, Brentford has 2 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses, with 7 points, temporarily ranking 13th in the Premier League standings. Past confrontation data shows that in the last four matches against Brentford, Manchester City won 3 wins and 1 draw, and never lost. Therefore, as long as Manchester City plays steadily and Guardiola is also in good shape, it is highly likely that all 3 points should be a matter of high probability. However, even if the chance of winning is very high, in order to win this game steadily, Guardiola is expected to use the elite main lineup as much as possible. Let’s briefly predict the starting lineup that Manchester City may send in this game. In the goalkeeper position, the main goalkeeper Donaluma continues to guard Manchester City's goal; on the defense line, if nothing unexpected happens, Guardiola will continue to use a relatively stable 4-guard formation, and the four defenders who are likely to win the start will be Nico O'Reilly, Ak, Ruben Dias and Mattus Nunes. Ak and Ruben Dias serve as the double-center-back combination; while Nico O'Reilly and Mattus Nunes will serve as the full-back from left to right. In the midfield, since Rodri has declared his injury and returned, he will naturally return to Manchester City's midfield and backcourt to intercept and steal, and serve as the main midfielder; and the two midfielders who partnered with him should be Croatian midfielder Kovacic, who just returned from injury. In front of the two midfielders, it is expected that the new ace foreign aid Reindez will continue to be entrusted with important tasks, taking the frontcourt as offensive commander and leading the team's frontcourt attack line; and the two frontcourt attackers who have formed support by Reindez should be Manchester City Prince Foden and Belgian winger Duoku, who are in a hot state recently. As expected, these two men will become an important guarantee for Manchester City to defeat the opponent in this game. On the forward line, of course, the team's leading striker Haaland charges for Manchester City in the frontcourt and shoulders the banner of offense. Therefore, based on the above analysis, it is expected that Manchester City's starting lineup against Brentford in this game are: Donnarumma; Nico O'Reilly, Ak, Ruben Dias, Mattus Nunes; Rodri, Kovacic; Foden, Reindez, Doku; Haaland.