Man City v Brighton

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Next, we take a look ahead to this upcoming top six clash in the Premier League between Manchester City and Brighton at the Etihad Stadium with both sides seeking to return to winning ways after failing to win their last two matches respectively, and in Manchester City's case, avoid a third league defeat on the trot as well.

Manchester City had seemingly clicked into gear with immediate effect at the start of this season as Pep Guardiola's side collected six wins on the trot along with scoring a total of 16 goals in the process and keeping clean sheets in three of these six victories.

However, City headed into the recent international break having been dealt back-to-back defeats by the likes of Wolves and Arsenal, both of which were away from home, but both of these losses have now left the hosts sitting in third spot and two points behind the top two north London clubs, Tottenham and Arsenal.

Therefore, The Citizens will be keen to assert their authority over Brighton when they return to their Etihad Stadium for Saturday's clash and having won their last 13 home games on the trot, it would be hard to argue against a Manchester City win here.

Brighton dropped down to sixth place in the Premier League standings despite holding an in-form Liverpool outfit to a 2-2 draw on home soil at their AMEX Stadium just before the international break but the preceding heavy 6-1 thrashing dealt out to them at Villa Park by Aston Villa will have had a lot to do with The Seagulls' slight decline in the table.

Nevertheless, Brighton have already picked up five wins out of their opening eight games of this new Premier League season and having qualified for European competition for the first time in their club history at the end of last season, the south coast club will no doubt now set their sights on a place in the lucrative Champions League this term.

Despite making a pretty solid to this new English top flight season though, Brighton manager, Roberto de Zerbi, is likely to be concerned with the lack of clean sheets from his side so far this season; indeed, it's now 12 league games since Brighton kept a clean sheet and that was towards the end of last season when they recorded a 3-0 win away from home at Arsenal.

Manchester City v Brighton Verdict

Manchester City will be itching to get back to the Etihad Stadium for this encounter where the hosts look set to score and having kept six clean sheets in their last 13 home wins, Pep's side stand a decent chance of keeping a clean sheet here on Saturday too.

Therefore, our main bet will be Both Teams To Score No @ 1.50

Other side bets worth considering:

Man City win & @ Both Teams To Score No 3.25 Correct score: Man City 2-0 @ 11.00