Result, Saturday 17 October: Manchester City 3-2 Ipswich Town.
Man City vs Ipswich: kickoff time and how to watch
- UK: Saturday 17 October 2026, 15:00 BST
- US: 10:00 a.m. ET, 7:00 a.m. PT
- US TV (as listed by ESPN): USA Network and Universo
- Venue: Etihad Stadium, Manchester
Form and the Premier League table
City are the only side in the division with a perfect record: six wins from six, 16 goals scored and five conceded. Their last five league games, oldest first, were a 4-1 win at Crystal Palace, 1-0 wins against Coventry City and at Manchester United, a 5-3 win over Sunderland and a 3-0 win at Liverpool on Sunday.
Away from the league, City won 2-0 at FC Porto in the Champions League on 8 September and beat Norwich City 5-0 in the League Cup on 17 September, before losing 4-2 at home to Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday. PSG led 3-0 at half-time and Erling Haaland scored twice after the break, as our Man City 2-4 PSG report describes. Enzo Maresca said afterwards that his team were "close" to PSG's level, Sky Sports reported. City host AEK Athens in the Champions League on Tuesday 20 October (20:00 BST).
Off the pitch, an independent commission found City guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of Premier League financial rules; the club have appealed and continue to deny any wrongdoing, Sky Sports reported on 12 October.
Ipswich, managed by Gary O'Neil, are 10th on nine points from three wins and three defeats. They are level on points with Leeds United, Hull City and Liverpool, who are seventh to ninth with a better goal difference, and one point ahead of 11th-placed Newcastle United. Their last five league games, oldest first, were a 5-2 defeat at Manchester United, a 2-0 home defeat by Liverpool, a 3-2 win at Crystal Palace, a 1-0 defeat at Everton and the 2-1 home win over Fulham on 10 October. They also lost 4-2 at home to Arsenal in the League Cup on 15 September, and they have not played since the Fulham game.
A win would take City to 21 points, six clear of Arsenal until Arsenal play at Nottingham Forest on Sunday. A win for Ipswich would take them to 12 points. The live Premier League table and Premier League fixtures pages cover the whole matchweek, and our Premier League simulator plays out the rest of the season from the current table.
Man City vs Ipswich team news
Manchester City: Phil Foden has served the three-match ban that followed his straight red card in the Manchester derby on 13 September; Sports Mole reported on 8 October that the game at Liverpool would be the third and final match of it. Before Wednesday's Champions League game, Sports Illustrated reported that Maresca was set to have a clean bill of health, and CBS Sports' live coverage said City's half-time triple change against PSG, with Jérémy Doku, Rúben Dias and Rayan Cherki going off, was not forced by injury. City had not confirmed any new injuries by Wednesday night.
Ipswich Town: O'Neil had a fully fit squad for the Fulham game apart from Abdul Fatawu, TWTD reported on 9 October. Fatawu was banned for one match after being sent off for a second booking in Ipswich's last game before the international break, the 1-0 defeat at Everton, so that suspension has now been served. In the same report, O'Neil said Azor Matusiwa and Jack Taylor, both coming back from surgery at the end of last season, were available. Ipswich had not confirmed any new injuries by Wednesday.
Three points and now we get ready, and I'm looking forward to the week, Man City week, big bit of prep to do on how we try and stop them, how we try and still be a threat.
Gary O'Neil, Ipswich Town manager, after the Fulham game, via TWTD (10 October)
Man City vs Ipswich head to head
| Date | Competition | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 19 January 2025 | Premier League | Ipswich Town 0-6 Manchester City |
| 24 August 2024 | Premier League | Manchester City 4-1 Ipswich Town |
| 27 January 2002 | FA Cup | Ipswich Town 1-4 Manchester City |
City won all three of those games, scoring 14 goals and conceding two; the most recent was their 6-0 win at Portman Road in January 2025.
Key numbers after six games
| After six games | Manchester City | Ipswich Town |
|---|---|---|
| Position | 1st | 10th |
| Points | 18 | 9 |
| Won-drawn-lost | 6-0-0 | 3-0-3 |
| Goals for | 16 | 9 |
| Goals against | 5 | 12 |
| Goal difference | +11 | -3 |
| Home record (City), away record (Ipswich) | 3-0-0, goals 8-4 | 1-0-2, goals 5-8 |
| Clean sheets | 3 | 0 |
| Games without scoring | 0 | 2 |
| Top league scorer (ESPN) | Erling Haaland, 6 | Leif Davis and Emersonn, 2 each |
| Most assists (ESPN) | Antoine Semenyo and Josko Gvardiol, 3 each | Julio Enciso, 2 |
City have conceded four of their five league goals at home, three of them in the 5-3 win over Sunderland, and one in three away games. Ipswich have not kept a clean sheet in the league this season. Away from home they have one win, 3-2 at Crystal Palace, and have conceded eight goals in three games, five of them at Manchester United.
How they lined up last time
City started the 3-0 win at Liverpool in a 4-2-3-1 with Gianluigi Donnarumma, Marc Guéhi, Rúben Dias, Nico O'Reilly, Matheus Nunes, Rayan Cherki, Enzo Fernández, Elliot Anderson, Erling Haaland, Antoine Semenyo and Iliman Ndiaye. All three goals came after Liverpool's Ryan Gravenberch was sent off in the 62nd minute. For the PSG game on Wednesday, Maresca made three changes to that starting XI: Josko Gvardiol, Abdukodir Khusanov and Jérémy Doku started, and Nico O'Reilly, Matheus Nunes and Iliman Ndiaye came off the bench.
Ipswich also lined up 4-2-3-1 against Fulham, with Christian Walton, Dara O'Shea, Issa Diop, Leif Davis, Abdoul Ouattara, Julio Enciso, Florentino, Sasa Lukic, Emersonn, Jaden Philogene and Daizen Maeda. Ryan Sessegnon put Fulham ahead in the 55th minute before Abdoul Ouattara equalized in the 88th and Dara O'Shea headed the winner in stoppage time, as our Ipswich 2-1 Fulham report details.
How this preview was built: kickoff time, US broadcasters, results, head to head, lineups and season leaders come from ESPN's match data; the table after matchweek 6 is our own, computed from ESPN full-time results. Team news, context and quotes come from Sports Mole, Sports Illustrated, CBS Sports, Sky Sports and TWTD. It contains no predictions or betting odds.