Manchester City host Coventry looking to maintain perfect start

Two starts, one table

City have won three of their last five recent matches, suffering one defeat alongside a draw. The home side beat Bournemouth 2-1 before Enzo Fernández is now a Manchester City player, then recorded a 4-1 victory over Crystal Palace. A win on Saturday would lift them to nine points from three played.

Coventry have won three of their last five but arrive on the back of consecutive defeats, 0-3 to Arsenal and 0-1 to Hull. Those two results leave them seventeenth with zero points from two games. A win here would bring three points from three played, a draw one point, while defeat keeps them on zero.

What the market expects

The market-implied probability has City winning at 83.3 per cent, with a draw at 10.7 per cent and a Coventry victory at 6.0 per cent. That heavy skew reflects the gap in the table and the contrasting records so far, six points against none, though Coventry's recent form in their last five matches shows three wins from five. The two previous meetings between the sides produced thirteen goals in total, City winning one 4-2 and losing the other 3-4.

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