- 1 Manchester City vs Coventry City: six goals at one end, none at the other
- 2 Manchester City: the attack is already humming
- 3 Coventry City: a promoted side still stuck on zero after two games
- 4 Premier League prediction Manchester City vs Coventry City
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Manchester City vs Coventry City: six goals at one end, none at the other 
Manchester City head into matchday three with six points from six and six goals already on the board. Coventry City arrive at the Etihad Stadium having failed to score once since the season kicked off.
Kick-off is set for Saturday 5 September at 16:00, French time. The game opens the run of 15:00 local-time fixtures in the Premier League.
City backed up their title credentials with a 4-1 win at Selhurst Park on matchday two. Coventry, at the same time, were coming off a 1-0 home defeat to Hull City, the other promoted side.
The table already tells the story: City sit top with six points, Coventry are 17th with none. A six-point gap after just two games says plenty about the difference between the two sides.
Coventry have already met a title contender this season, losing 3-0 at the Emirates on opening day. The script looks just as bleak in the north of England.
Enzo Maresca has been in charge of the Citizens since the summer and is still dealing with a packed treatment room. Even so, his side smashed four past Palace in London a week ago.
The fixture comes just before September’s international break, so City will be desperate to head into it with nine points from nine.
The real question is not who wins, but by how many. And that is where this one gets easy to read.
Manchester City: the attack is already humming 
Two games, two wins, six goals: Citys start to the season has been spotless. No one else in the league has done better going forward.
A lot of that came from the Selhurst Park show, where the Citizens put four past Crystal Palace. Erling Braut Haaland struck in the 17th and 85th minutes, with Rayan Cherki adding goals in the 54th and 59th.
Haaland already has two Premier League goals and sits one behind pace-setter Bruno Fernandes. Cherki is on the same tally, giving Maresca two threats instead of one obvious focal point.
The only goal City conceded in that game was Gianluigi Donnarumma’s own goal in the 56th minute. Palace, in other words, did not find a proper way through.
The opening weekend was harder work, with a 2-1 win over Bournemouth in front of 60,645 fans. City were behind by the 26th minute after Marcus Tavernier had scored.
The turnaround came late, with Marc Guehi levelling in the 85th and Josko Gvardiol sealing it in the 90th+2. That late surge matters in a game that could stay tight for a while.
City’s six goals have come from four different players, which makes life awkward for any defence trying to shut down one main source of danger. Even so, Haaland and Cherki are still the biggest problems.
The bad news is still the injury list. Rodri is continuing his recovery after surgery and Jeremy Doku is nursing a calf problem picked up in the Community Shield defeat to Arsenal. The Spain midfielder is being lined up for the derby on 12 September, not this one.
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Coventry City: a promoted side still stuck on zero after two games 
Coventry are, alongside Tottenham, the only side in the division yet to score in the opening two rounds. The tally reads zero goals for and four against.
Their return to the top flight began with a trip to the Emirates Stadium, where they were beaten 3-0 in front of 60,098 spectators. Kai Havertz in the 15th minute, Bukayo Saka in the 23rd and Martin Odegaard in the 49th did the damage.
It tells its own story: all three goals arrived before the hour, and Coventry never got back into it. The defence cracked early and the attack never asked a question.
The second outing was meant to offer a better chance at home against fellow promoted side Hull City. It ended in a 1-0 defeat after Liam Millar scored in the 82nd minute, with 31,239 in the ground.
Losing that promoted-versus-promoted scrap hurts badly for what comes next. Hull already have six points; Coventry have none. The gap opened up immediately between two teams expected to be fighting the same battle.
As for injuries, Woolfenden and Wright are out for this trip. That leaves the squad thin for their toughest assignment yet.
Across the two games, Coventry have never led or even levelled. They have spent all 180 minutes of league football chasing the game.
The preferred shape is a 4-2-3-1 with Taiwo Awoniyi up top, a setup built to sit deep and break fast. That plan only works if you can actually break, and they failed to do that at Arsenal.
Probable Manchester City line-up: Not available at time of publication.
Probable Coventry City line-up: Rushworth, Thomas, Ewijk, Amenda, Dasilva, Yirenkyi, Grimes, Tchaouna, Rudoni, Onyeka, Awoniyi.
Premier League prediction Manchester City vs Coventry City
Our prediction: Manchester City to win by at least three goals (handicap -2)
City scored four in their last outing and six in total since the season began. Coventry have not coped with any top side, shipping three at Arsenal on day one.
The contrast between the two attacks is the backbone of this call: six goals at one end, none at the other. Haaland and Cherki both come in off braces, which gives City several ways to hurt them.
Coventry travel without two players and still have not scored since the league kicked off. Two games without a goal does not usually fix itself at the Etihad Stadium.
Take Manchester City by three goals or more. The bet stacks up because of the home side’s depth in attack and the promoted side’s current lack of threat up front.
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