West Brom and Manchester City are set to play on the English Premier League schedule on Monday to finish off the EPL Week 1 kickoff and it will be the debut of Raheem Sterling for Man City and the match is from the Hawthorns as West Bromwich Albion hosts at 8 pm ET and will have live stream coverage on the NBC Sports Live Extra website.
Man City is coming in with Sterling set to make his debut after a record transfer over the summer and Manuel Pellegrini said that he is ready to be a star for the team. Sterling is just 20 and has his best years ahead of him and he comes in after a £49m move and it comes after he played for Liverpool. Gael Clichy and Fabian Delph are out for the match and West Brom will have Joleon Lescott in doubt with an injury and the team will be hoping for a positive start to the season.
David Silva, Samir Nasri and Sergio Aguero are expected to play for Man City and Sterling is going to be center stage for his first game for City. The team won the title before Chelsea took it last season and they will be looking to get back to the top of the EPL table. Man City has won four of the last five matches away at West Brom and they have not lost in that stretch and they are looking to start things off on a positive note.
Man City has won seven straight games against West Brom and the team comes in having won their opening game in five of the last six seasons. Manchester City will play against Chelsea coming up next for their home opener at Etihad Stadium and that comes ahead of matches against Everton and Watford. Man City will be away against Crystal Palace after that and they also have tough matchups with Tottenham and Liverpool in the weeks ahead.
A win for Man City this year on top of the table would be the third championship in five years and the team will try and stop Chelsea from going back to back. Manchester United is looking to get back into the top tier and they had a good season last year and made a number of moves over the summer. Pellegrini got an extension to give the coach some job security coming into this season and now Steering comes in after scoring seven goal for the Reds last year.
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