Manchester City welcome Wolverhampton Wanderers to the Etihad Stadium in their penultimate home game of the season.
The Blues are still very much in the mix for UEFA Champions League football, sitting fourth in the table with a guaranteed five teams qualifying.
The visitors are in good form with six Premier League wins on the bounce, but City will be buoyed by their 2-0 win over Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup semi final last time out.
Here are five things to look out for in City’s clash with Wolves:
Another boycott at the start of the game
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Once again, we will see a half empty Etihad Stadium welcome the two teams onto the pitch as supporters prepare to boycott en-masse.
After a nine minute boycott against Leicester City, a six minute boycott has been planned for the Wolves game to mark it being six years since a new traditional season ticket was sold.
The club continues to exploit the loyalty of the supporters with the flexi-gold season tickets, and along with ticket prices and the links to ticket tout companies there’s plenty for the supporters to complain about despite the brilliant football.
It’ll be interesting to see whether the protest makes any impact at all, or even gets the same media attention that it did last time.
De Bruyne and Gundogan coming back into the team
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The 4-2-2-2 system is becoming increasingly well established amongst the players and is getting the team results, and Kevin de Bruyne and Ilkay Gundogan have been at the heart of that.
Operating as the two number tens, they contributed to wins against Crystal Palace, Everton and Aston Villa, but were surprisingly dropped against Forest in favour of Jack Grealish and Rico Lewis, both of whom performed well with Lewis opening the scoring for the Blues.
But I think they’ll come back in against Wolves, as their experience and quality is vital at this point of the season where every point matters.
McAtee or Foden starting
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Savinho wasn’t great against Forest, and doesn’t really suit the system where most of the width is provided by the full backs.
I imagine we’ll see James McAtee or Phil Foden come into his place. McAtee was suspended for the cup semi final but has played quite a bit recently, and chips in regularly with goals and assists.
Foden has been out of form for a while but at his best deserves the team to be built around him, and that PFA Player of the Year winning form surely can’t be far away.
The 24-year-old came on late on against Forest and I expect him and McAtee to feature against Wolves, whether from the bench or in the lineup.
How did City cope with Cunha?
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By far Wolves’s best player (and the best player out of any of the bottom seven or eight teams in my opinion) is Matheus Cunha.
The Brazilian forward is attracting interest from Manchester United this summer, after excelling this season as a number ten in Vitor Pereira’s system.
He’s a powerful runner, good finisher and is consistent with his end product – the kind of player to have caused City issues all season.
But the Blues have turned a corner and can be confident that their narrow midfield can limit his space and stop the Wolves transitions quickly, thus limiting Cunha’s threat.
An entertaining spectacle
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These are two of the most in form teams in the league at the moment, so it should be an enticing fixture.
City don’t play particularly exciting football anymore, but they’re much more solid and efficient than earlier this season, and can still score goals when going forward.
Wolves have played similarly to that in the last six games and are building confidence, but the six teams they beat are all 14th or lower, so the real test will be facing a team of City’s ability and stature.
I expect City to come out on top but it’ll be more even (and entertaining) than I’m sure many anticipate.