Why does Pep Guardiola compare Gabriel Jesus to a watermelon?
Manchester City could welcome back captain Vincent Kompany and Fernadinho but will still be without Ilkay Gundogan.
Captain Leon Britton has returned to training following a calf problem and will be part of the travelling squad.
However, while he is expected to return to the Premier League side this summer, according to The Sun, the Hammers will test City’s resolve and turn their interest into a £15m bid for his services.
The visitors are available at 14/1 (15.0) to claim a famous victory, although the odds are stacked against Swansea, for they have lost all but one of their last eight meetings with Manchester City, while nearly 66 years have passed since the Swans last won an away match against Sunday’s opponents.
West Ham have slowly been making their way up the Premier League table after a awful start to the season.
“But a Swansea thumping is not inevitable – and that’s progress”.
“The last two games we have made a clean sheet”, he said.
“If I’m in the starting line-up it is great and if not I’m going to try to help the team any way I can”. Paul Clement’s side have scored in four of their last five, though, so we’ll back Man City and Both to Score.
“This guy (Jesus) arrives, he played good”.
Think you can do better than Lawro? Swansea’s last 11 league games have produced three goals or more, while Manchester City have seen over 2.5 goals in their last six matches in all competitions.
United, facing Hull for the third time in 23 days after their League Cup semi-final, were thwarted by a determined Jakupovic, who saved well from Zlatan Ibrahimovic and even more impressively from substitute Juan Mata.
Swansea’s only away win in this fixture came in the second tier in March 1951.
“I love the players who make backwards moves and help the team and show me that desire to keep the ball, to attack again”.
Doubts have been raised over the Argentine’s future a handful of times this season due to manager Pep Guardiola dropping him from the team on occasion.
But Clement admits Andres Iniesta’s last-gasp goal which sent Guardiola’s Barcelona through to the 2009 Champions League final at Chelsea’s expense was one of the lowest points of his career. Considering how those two clubs have been playing, it now looks like Swansea could have enough to survive the drop, despite looking doomed just a few weeks ago.