Fulham v Manchester City



Saturday 12:45pm GMT Craven Cottage
Sky Sports 1 (12:30-15:00) Sky Sports HD1 (12:30-15:00)

Fulham are developing into an impressively solid Premiership unit, and this is largely down to Roy Hodgson's understated management style. His summer transfer signings are proving
to be astute buys, and the team now has a reliable core of experienced campaigners. They are 5-1-1 at Craven Cottage this season, which is an impressive record by anybody's standards.
 

	Fulham wins	Draws	Man City wins
League	14	11	21
FA Cup	1	1	1
League Cup	1	0	0
Total	16	12	22

Compare this to Manchester City, who still seem to be woefully imbalanced, despite possibly being the most entertaining team to watch in the Premiership. They match up poorly to Fulham, who have four clean sheets in their last eight games. It will be a game of contrast, but I expect that the away team will go all-out attack and possibly struggle to break down the Fulham defence. City's away record of 1-2-4 hardly bodes well for this fixture against one of the most under-rated and improved sides in the league

Barclays Premier League Table

			| Home					| Away
	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Liverpool	15	5	3	0	11	4	5	1	1	10	4	13	34
2	Chelsea	15	3	3	2	14	5	7	0	0	19	1	27	33
3	Man Utd	14	5	1	0	18	4	3	3	2	8	6	16	28
4	Arsenal	15	4	1	2	14	10	4	1	3	13	9	8	26
5	Aston Villa	15	3	4	1	10	7	4	0	3	12	9	6	25
6	Hull	15	2	2	3	7	14	4	3	1	15	10	-2	23
7	Everton	15	1	3	3	7	12	5	1	2	13	10	-2	22
8	Portsmouth	15	4	2	2	13	10	2	2	3	5	12	-4	22
9	Bolton	15	2	2	3	6	7	4	0	4	12	10	1	20
10	Fulham	14	5	1	1	10	5	0	3	4	2	6	1	19
11	Wigan	15	3	2	3	6	9	2	2	3	12	10	-1	19
12	Middlesbrough	15	3	2	3	8	12	2	2	3	7	9	-6	19
13	West Ham	15	3	1	3	11	11	2	2	4	6	11	-5	18
14	Stoke	15	5	1	2	12	10	0	2	5	3	15	-10	18
15	Man City	15	4	0	4	19	9	1	2	4	10	14	6	17
16	Tottenham	15	3	1	4	7	7	1	2	4	10	14	-4	15
17	Newcastle	15	3	2	2	11	9	0	4	4	6	13	-5	15
18	Sunderland	15	2	1	5	7	13	2	2	3	6	11	-11	15
19	Blackburn	15	1	2	4	4	12	2	2	4	12	16	-12	13
20	West Brom	15	2	1	4	8	14	1	1	6	3	13	-16	11

 
The only caveat is that Fulham's last two matches have been 0-0, and with Man City having drawn a blank during their midweek game against Paris St Germain, we'll err on the
side of caution and take a saver on 'no goal scorer'.
 
NJ's Bets:
 
Fulham to beat Man City - 4pts @ 2.72 (Betfair)
 
No Goal scorer in Fulham vs Man City - 0.25pts @ 12.0 (Betfair)

Nishant Joshi