On October 19 2016 at 19:45 in the game of Champions League group stage third round at the Camp Nou Stadium Barcelona host Manchester City.
Manchester City come to the Barcelona home stadium for the third time in a raw in the Champions League. In the two previous games the Catalonians hardly won 2:1 and 1:0. As the Citizens managed to lose with minimum advantage of Barcelona with Pellegrini as a manager, we think that they will be able not to lose with any devastating score with Guardiola.
Barcelona are extremely strong at home. And Manchester City had a series of unsuccessful matches and haven’t won any of the last three games played. Anyway, the result of the game is not so easy to predict.
Moreover, Barcelona have made a few mistakes too. They lost to Celta, Alaves and drew Atletico at home. This season they outplayed a few teams with devastating scores and these teams were Deportivo, Gijon, Celtic, Leganes and Betis. And there were teams, which lost with just one goal advantage of Barcelona, drew or won. They were Bilbao, Alaves, Atletico, Monchengladbach and Celta. It’s not hard to understand that Barcelona score a lot against the teams, which are the outsiders of the competitions they take part in. Other, more dangerous teams compete with Barcelona and don’t concede too much.
In the first 8 EPL games Manchester City gained more points than Barcelona in the first 8 games of La Liga. And we all know that there are much more teams in EPL, which are ready to compete for championship. In the Champions League the Citizens haven’t lost a single game and only lost one game with Guardiola as a manager at all. Barcelona lost twice this season.
We are trying to say that the hosts are overestimated. Guardiola knows Barcelona very well and has a really strong squad, which shows great results in the national championship and international competition.
We think that Manchester City will manage not to lose with a lot of goals conceded in the forthcoming game and the victory of the visitors with +1.5 handicap is very probable.
Prediction for the match: Mancester City to win with +1.5 handicap.
