Who would want to play City right now? Unfortunately for Dortmund they’ve got the short straw. Both sides cruised through their previous games, keeping clean sheets, and cementing their dominance as the group’s favourites. The Etihad has been a fortress of late and from City’s last 13 games we can see 10 of them have produced over 3.5 goals and with the form Haaland is in who’d back against him? After he became the fastest player to reach 25 UCL goals in history.
Pep’s got no injury worries and no worries about his team’s ability either, unbeaten in their last 8 and scoring 27 goals in the process. Add to that the fact they’ve accrued 9 straight home wins and Haaland is breaking scoring records all over the place. City dispatched Seville in the last group match 0-4 away.
Dortmund on their day is a formidable team, but they let themselves down with unforgivable lapses of concentration from time to time. They boost a good away record of late, although losing last weekend 3-0 to Leipzig, that’s only their second away loss in the previous 12 away games.
Key stats
- City our unbeaten in their last 8 games, scoring 27 goals
- City 50%, BD 30% BTTS over last 10 games
- City 70%, BD 50% BTTS over last 10 games
