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Predicted Manchester City XI vs Norwich

Final 5-0 Norwich@Dermster called 4/11EFL

4-4-2
How it finished

4/11

Didn't start · 7
  • DonnarummaGK
  • GvardiolCB
  • GuéhiCB
  • FernándezCM
  • SemenyoLM
  • HaalandST
  • FodenST

Green ring = started · red ring = didn't make the XI.

Scored against the confirmed XI
This XI
4/11
Not bad at all.
Fans' XI
5/11
3 predictions
Oracle
5/11
our model

Has beaten the Oracle in 1 of 17 scored XIs.

The difference · Against the official XI

4 of 11 named, 7 missed

Started, not picked
  • Kovačić#8
  • Nunes#22
  • Rulli#28
  • O'Reilly#33
  • Allan#37
  • Samba#75
  • Lewis#82
Picked, didn't start
  • Donnarumma#1
  • Gvardiol#24
  • Guéhi#6
  • Fernández#17
  • Semenyo#42
  • Haaland#9
  • Foden#47

Compared against the official XI as published for this fixture.

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The Oracle · Predicted XI model

Agrees with the Oracle on 6 of 11

Only in this XI
  • Gvardiol
  • Guéhi
  • Fernández
  • Bouaddi
  • Foden
The Oracle has instead
  • Lewis
  • Dias
  • Kovačić
  • Anderson
  • McAidoo

Manchester City lose four to departures and three more to injury or rules, yet Rúben Dias returns as they deploy a 4-2-3-1 shape at home to Norwich. J. Beadle steps in for R. Allsop in the latest adjustment.

The Oracle has averaged 5.7 of 11 across 32 resolved EFL Cup XIs. It predicts every fixture and is scored the same way you are. Meet the Oracle.

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