Manchester City and Newcastle United are playing live on the English Premier League schedule on Saturday and the game from the Etihad Stadium starts at 12:30 pm ET and will be on the NBC Sports Network and NBCSN Live Extra website and has Man City looking to stick near Chelsea at the top of the Barclays standings.
Man City comes into things at second on the English Premier League table and they are just ahead of Arsenal and they are also leading Man United. Southampton, Tottenham and Liverpool are next on the standings and Man City comes in at eight points back of Chelsea after their game on Saturday against Burnley. Man City could have Wilfried Bony in the lineup after he returns from the Africa Cup along with Yaya Toure and Sergio Aguero is expected to play as well.
The team will be without James Milner while he deals with a knee injury, while Newcastle will be down a couple key players as well. These teams have some history against each other with the League Cup Final back in the day and now Man City comes in looking to take care of business. Toure will be looking to get things going after being away for a bit and the team also has the Champions League coming up and they want to stay in the mix there as well. Man City won the EPL title last season and they are within striking distance of Chelsea now.
Man City does not look as strong as they did last season and they have Barcelona in the Champions League and that will be a tough test no matter what happens leading into that. City has a chance to make a run in the EPL, but with the way Chelsea is playing, it looks like they will win things out. Toure and Bony should give the team a boost and this comes after Newcastle won earlier in the year here in the LEague Cup, but that was not EPL play, so this is a tough one for them.
Man City has won 10 straight games in EPL play against Newcastle and they have not lost against the team in 16 tries, drawing two and winning 14. Man City has outscored the team by 12 goals the past four games and Newcastle has not been able to score and one advantage is that Man City has not won in the last three games at home. The team comes in looking to get Toure going, while Newcastle has won just one of the last seven games away from home in EPL play.
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