Ipswich Town vs Manchester City: Premier League preview, team news, stats & head-to-head

Ipswich have lost just one of their last 28 home league games against Man City (W20 D7) and have won their last four in a row. However, this is the first meeting of this kind since a 2-1 win in May 2001.

In what is the 30th League Two campaign in which they have met, Manchester City are looking to complete the double over Ipswich for just the third time, having previously done so in 1961-62 and 1994-95.

Since a 3-2 win over Manchester United in September 1994, Ipswich Town are winless in their last six Premier League games against the reigning champions (D1 L5). They have conceded 21 goals this term, while only scoring twice themselves.

Manchester City have won 20 of their last 21 Premier League matches against the promoted side since losing 2-1 at Leeds United in April 2021, with the only exception this term being a 1-1 draw at Nottingham Forest in February 2023.

Over their last two Premier League campaigns (2001-02 and this one), Ipswich have won just one of their 14 games played on a Sunday (D6 L7), winning 2-1 at Spurs earlier this season.

Manchester City have dropped 14 points from winning positions in the Premier League this season, letting a 2-0 lead slip and drawing 2-2 with Brentford last time out. This is the most points the Citizens have lost from the start in a single campaign since 2008-09 (20).

Manchester City have conceded 29 goals in 21 Premier League games this season, averaging 1.4 goals per game. match their highest in a single campaign since 2007-08 (also 1.4).

Sammie Szmodics scored Ipswich’s goal in their 4-1 defeat of Man City in the reverse fixture. The last time a player for a promotion side scored home and away goals against the reigning champions in a campaign was 2017-18, when Newcastle’s Dwight Gayle and Huddersfield’s Laurent Depoitre did it against Chelsea.

Erling Haaland scored a hat-trick in Man City’s 4-1 win against Ipswich earlier this season – the only player to score hat-tricks home and away against an opponent in the same campaign is Emmanuel Adebayor (for Arsenal v Derby County in 2007-08).

After failing to score in his first 11 Premier League games this season, Man City’s Phil Foden has scored four goals in his last five. He is looking to score in three consecutive league games for the first time since October 2022.