Manchester City — Brighton & Hove Albion 3:2, 28 October: match result

match finished EFL Cup Wednesday 28 October · 19:30 UTC

Manchester City WW

3 : 2 1st half 1:1 penalties 4:3

Brighton & Hove Albion LW

Etihad Stadium · referee A. Madley

Match predictionValue

Manchester City to score

87% · Manchester City games average 5 goals

Prediction landed. We predicted “Manchester City to score”, and the match finished 3:2.

the market is chosen by our model: not always the obvious one, but a likely one

our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Manchester City 47% draw 23% Brighton & Hove Albion 30%

The model was right

The most likely outcome was Manchester City win, and the match finished 3:2. Fans backed Manchester City win — they got it right.

fans 63 votes

Manchester City 58% draw 12% Brighton & Hove Albion 30%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

P. Foden penalty 1-0 1'

P. Gross penalty 1-1 1'

E. Fernandez penalty 2-1 2'

M. O'Riley penalty 2-2 2'

M. De Cuyper penalty 3-3 3'

J. Doku penalty 3-2 3'

R. Cherki penalty 4-3 5'

M. Svoboda 11'

M. Yalcouye assist: G. Rutter 0-1 30'

A. Bouaddi 32'

M. Kovacic assist: P. Foden 1-1 40'

G. Rutter assist: J. Hadjam 1-2 47'

Vitor Reis assist: R. Cherki 2-2 72'

M. Wieffer 90+1'

L. Dunk 90+2'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Manchester City 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1 Brighton & Hove Albion

Gerónimo Rulli  
Rico Lewis  22 Vitor Reis  6 Marc Guéhi  33 Nico O'Reilly  
Ayyoub Bouaddi  8 Mateo Kovačić  
Phil Foden  10 Rayan Cherki  37 Allan  
Floyd Samba  

Georginio Rutter  
Diego Gómez  8 Jack Hinshelwood  35 Malick Yalcouyé  
Pascal Groß  26 Yasin Ayari  
Costinha  30 Michael Svoboda  21 Olivier Boscagli  3 Jaouen Hadjam  
Jason Steele  

Manchester City bench

45Abdukodir Khusanov
76Dexter Oliver
17Enzo Fernández
7Iliman Ndiaye
11Jérémy Doku
61Kaden Braithwaite
13Marcus Bettinelli
21Rayan Aït-Nouri
56Ryan McAidoo

Brighton & Hove Albion bench

1Bart Verbruggen
15Ibrahim Osman
5Lewis Dunk
44Luka Vušković
27Mats Wieffer
33Matt O'Riley
29Maxim De Cuyper
12Promise David
11Yankuba Minteh

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

57%Possession43%

13Shots17

3Shots on target6

4Shots off target9

6Blocked shots2

7Shots inside box9

6Shots outside box8

97Attacks116

55Dangerous attacks47

3Corners7

4Offsides3

3Fouls20

1Yellow cards3

4Saves1

527Passes391

448Accurate passes320

23Free kicks7

20Throw-ins16

10Goal kicks3

0Penalties0

Manchester City

Brighton & Hove AlbionThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Manchester City and Brighton & Hove Albion met in the EFL Cup on 28 October at Etihad Stadium. Final score — 3:2.

Manchester City have played 2 matches (2 wins, 0 draws, 0 losses), won 2 matches in a row. Brighton & Hove Albion have played 2 matches (1 win, 0 draws, 1 loss).

Of the last 2 meetings Manchester City won 0, Brighton & Hove Albion won 1, with 1 more meeting drawn. Aggregate score — 2:3.

Season form

all competitions of the season

Manchester City last five Brighton & Hove Albion

WW form LW

2 Matches 2

2 — 0 — 0 Wins — draws — defeats 1 — 0 — 1

8 — 2 Scored — conceded 5 — 5

3 Points per game 1.5

4 Goals scored per game 2.5

1 Clean sheets 0

0 Failed to score 0

unbeaten in 2 Current streak winless in 1

Manchester City at home: 2 matches, 2 wins, 0 draws, 0 losses, goals 8—2, 3 points per match.

Brighton & Hove Albion away: 2 matches, 1 win, 0 draws, 1 loss, goals 5—5, 1.5 points per match.

Head-to-head

2 matches in our database

0 Manchester City wins 1 draw 1 Brighton & Hove Albion win goals 2:3 Manchester City — Brighton & Hove Albion

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