Wigan Atletic vs Manchester City Preview

February 18, 2018
By: Deke Hardman

Monday evening’s FA Cup action from the DW Stadium sees League One promotion hopefuls Wigan Athletic take on runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City in a repeat of the 2013 final.

The hosts, who’s own title ambitions have took a knock following back-to-back league defeats have already taken two top flight scalps this season – knocking out Bournemouth and West Ham United having already seen off League Two Crawley Town and non-league Fylde.

Captain Sam Morsy will miss the game after picking up a tenth booking of the season last time out while James Vaughn, Devante Cole and Donervon Daniels are all cup-tied.

Will Grigg is 15.0 (14/1) to get the first goal of the game with Unibet, ahead of 16.0 (15/1) chance Nick Powell.

The home win is as highly priced as the 23.0 (22/1) on offer from some firms, with the visitors firm favourites at 1.18 (2/11) with Betfred. The draw is widely available at 8.0 (7/1).

Pep Guardiola’s side go in to this game on the back of an impressive 4-0 win over Basel in the Champions League, which came days after a resounding league victory over Leicester City.

The Citizens are well placed in all four competitions with talk of a quadruple rife and with the games coming thick and fast a number of changes to the starting line-up are expected.

The game may come to soon for Gabriel Jesus who has returned to training following a knee injury while Leroy Sane, Fabian Delph and David Silva may keep their places after making their returns midweek.

Sergio Aguero is priced at 3.5 (5/2) to open the scoring with several bookmakers, with Raheem Sterling a 4.5 (7/2) chance with Unibet.

The sides have met twice since that final almost five years ago, winning one each though both of the clashes between them at Wigan have ended in away wins to nil.

You can back that outcome this time around at 1.73 (8/11) while you may be tempted to back City to score four or more for a third straight match, which is priced at 2.88 (15/8) with Coral.

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