Fulham vs Man City lineup, the visiting team is back to relying on Haaland

– Manchester City again rely on striker Erling Haaland when they travel to Fulham headquarters in the Premier League continued, Sunday (30/4/2023), at Craven Cottage Stadium, London.

Man City has the chance to overtake the standings leader Arsenal if they win this match. With 75 points, Arsenal are still two points ahead of Man City.

Man City coach, Pep Guardiola, carries out a 3-2-4-1 formation. Haaland is as usual the sole spearhead in the front row. He is supported by a quartet of Julián Álvarez, Ilkay Gundogan, Riyad Mahrez and Jack Grealish.

While in the Fulham camp, coach Marco Silva also carried out a 4-2-3-1 formation. He put Carlos Vinícius as a mainstay in the front row supported by Harry Wilson, Andreas Pereira and Bobby Reid.

After successfully defeating the Gunners in the middle of last week, the distance between City (73) and Arsenal (75) is now only two points. City also still have two games yet to play, which makes them even more comfortable in their pursuit of Mikel Arteta’s men.

Moreover, Arsenal did not play this weekend, and just played again against Chelsea in the middle of next week. That is, if City is able to reap the full three points when they travel to Fulham headquarters tonight, the defending champions will win over the top of the standings.

The match record between City and Fulham is also in favor of the visitors. Since 2012, City have beaten Fulham 13 times in a row. In their last game at City last November, Fulham came close to picking up their first point before being denied by a penalty from Erling Haaland.

The last name was indeed a craze in his debut season in the Premier League. Noted, the Norwegian striker has scored 33 goals in his first season in the blue Manchester uniform. Haaland has successfully surpassed Mohamed Salah’s goal record (32, 2017/2018) and is only one goal away from the Premier League records held by Andy Cole (1993/1994) and Alan Shearer (1994/1995) when the Premier League format was still 22 teams.

Lineup:

Fulham (4-2-3 -1): 17 Bernd Leno; 2 Kenny Tete, 4 Tosin Adarabioyo, 13 Tim Ream, 33 Antonee Robinson; 6 Harrison Reed, 26 Joao Palhinha; 8 Harry Wilson, 18 Andreas Pereira, 14 Bobby Reid; 30 Carlos Vinicius

Reserves: 1 Marek Rodak; 5 Shane Duffy, 7 Neeskens Kebano, 10 Tom Cairney, 11 Manor Soloman, 12 Cédric Soares, 21
Daniel James, 28 Sasa Lukic, 31 Issa Diop

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