After profitable final season’s prestigious Premier League Participant of the Season award, turning into the fifth Manchester Metropolis participant to take action in as a few years, followers have been desirous to see a continuation of the scintillating performances of the midfield maestro final season.
Nonetheless, the ‘Stockport Messi’ is but to hit the bottom operating within the 2024/25 marketing campaign. Having began just one match, enjoying simply 166 minutes out of a doable 630, it’s honest to say that Foden hasn’t had a chance to showcase his creativity and attacking aptitude up to now this season.
Now seemingly again to full health, Head Coach Pep Guardiola will likely be hopeful that the younger midfielder can hit a purple patch because the Sky Blues enter a form run of fixtures that would play a pivotal in deciding the result of the Premier League title race.
Of their subsequent 4 fixtures, Metropolis’s opponents embrace rock-bottom Wolves, newly-promoted Southampton, who presently discover themselves in nineteenth, a Bournemouth aspect who discovered themselves on the unsuitable finish of a 1-0 scoreline towards Leicester final day out, and Fabian Hurzeler’s Brighton, who conceded 4 targets to ex-Metropolis midfielder Cole Palmer in Chelsea’s 4-2 win towards them earlier this season.
With Metropolis lacking key gamers like Kevin De Bruyne and Rodri, with the latter out for the rest of the season, plainly Foden should seize the reigns and relieve a number of the weight from the league’s high goalscorer Erling Haaland.
Opponents Wolves and Southampton are two of solely 4 groups but to win a Premier League sport this season. Southampton have conceded a disappointing 13 targets, whereas Wolves have conceded an eye-watering twenty-one targets, the best variety of any crew within the league.
With twenty-six purpose involvements final season, Foden will likely be desirous to open his account for the season towards Wolves on Sunday, twentieth October. When the edges final confronted one another in Might, Metropolis thrashed Wolves 5-1. Unsurprisingly, Norwegian Erling Haaland bagged himself 4 targets, one in all which was assisted by Foden. The pair hopes to rekindle their lethal partnership from final season within the upcoming fixture.
On the flip aspect, title rivals Arsenal and Liverpool are each on the verge of a troublesome run of fixtures. After a visit to Bournemouth this coming weekend, The Gunners face Liverpool on the Emirates. Following that, they face back-to-back away matches towards sturdy Newcastle and Chelsea sides. After selecting up a knock in England’s 2-1 defeat towards Greece, it stays unclear whether or not Saka will likely be obtainable for Arsenal’s subsequent match. With Martin Odegaard nonetheless sidelined, Mikel Arteta’s press convention forward of Saturday’s match will likely be eagerly anticipated by Arsenal followers, who will likely be praying for a constructive replace on the Saka harm entrance.
Elsewhere, Arne Slot’s table-topping Liverpool aspect faces Chelsea, Arsenal, Brighton and Aston Villa of their subsequent 4. Having solely conceded two targets this season, 4 lower than Arsenal and Nottingham Forest, who’ve each conceded six, Slot will likely be assured that his crew can proceed their spectacular run of kind. Nonetheless, their again line will likely be weakened after goalkeeper Alisson sustained an harm of their 2-0 win over Crystal Palace.
Foden’s return to health has come at a vital time with all three title-chasing groups seemingly suffering from accidents to key gamers. If he finds his kind from final season, he may assist Manchester Metropolis climb again to the highest.
