City to return to winning ways against Wigan

Wigan have a knack of upsetting the Premier League's top teams but Lee Dixon can't see anything other than a Manchester City win at the DW Stadium on Wednesday night.

Manchester City have slipped back to second place in the table but they remain undefeated. I'm afraid I can't really build a case for that changing at the DW Stadium on Wednesday night.

 

Wigan have produced amazing results against the big teams over the last few years. In fact, they turned the tide of last season's title race when they beat Manchester United here in May. However, although the Latics did pull off an excellent win over Tottenham this term, they tend to save their best form for the run-in.

 

Roberto Martinez's team have been inconsistent this season and, after battling to beat Reading here on Saturday, City represent an entirely different level of opposition. They drew a rare blank in Sunday's 0-0 against Chelsea and I think they will be back to scoring ways here.

 

City kept Chelsea out and, although it was a consecutive clean sheet in the league, they've had problems in defence. Wigan aren't bad up front, Martinez's team always play attractive football when possible and they've notched a healthy 11 goals at home so far. I can definitely see both teams scoring at the DW, so back that.

 

We could be in for an entertaining game as all but one of Wigan's league matches here this season have produced three goals or more. Arouane Kone is their biggest threat, although Jordi Gomez will be fired up after his hat-trick against Reading. City's failure to score at Stamford Bridge was anomalous so I think Sergio Aguero and Edin Dzeko in particular will have more joy this time out.

 

City are a far outfit superior to their north west rivals. They only won this one by a single goal last season but I expect them to prevail by a more emphatic margin on Wednesday. I like the look of the 1-3 at 14.0with Dzeko to get at least one.

 

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