Citizens are playing better in the Champions League this season than in the national championship. Manchester City played host to Olympiacos in the Champions League group stage this week and achieved a 3:0 success. This is the third consecutive winning result in the European Cup and in each of the matches of this tournament. Josep Guardiola’s wards have scored three goals. They also beat Porto (3:1) and Marseille (3:0). It seems that in the Champions League, the “townspeople” have already practically solved their problem and now they need to go all out into internal squabbles, where things are not yet so optimistic. Especially in terms of performance. And the stability in the last rounds of Manchester City was clearly not enough. After a rather successful opening match in the Premier League, in which the Manquans won a convincing 3:1 victory away, followed by a failure in the match with Leicester and a terrible 2:5 defeat. Conclusions were drawn from it. In the next four rounds, Guardiola’s charges conceded only two goals, but they themselves scored no more than one per match. Two away matches during this period ended in a 1:1 draw with Leeds and West Ham. They also beat Sheffield United (1:0) in the last round on its field and at home they won the match against Arsenal (1:0). We also note that out of six meetings in the current championship at home, Manchester City have played only two. Perhaps the reason for the poor performance was the injuries of several key players. Fernandinho, Benjamin Mendy and Sergio Aguero are still in the infirmary.
Juventus also started the season far from perfect, but gradually managed to get in shape. After six rounds Andrea Pirlo’s team is on the third line in the table with 12 points, losing three points to the second Sassuolo and four points to the first Milan, while the nonverdi have already played their match in the seventh round. After two unsuccessful matches with Crotone (1:1) and Verona (1:1), Cristiano Ronaldo returned to the system and immediately helped his team to score three points. In the away meeting with La Spezia, the Portuguese striker entered the field with the score 1:1 and three minutes later brought the old lady forward. The 4:1 win helped Juventus break into the top three. In the Champions League, Juventus started with a confident 2:0 victory over Dynamo Kiev, but lost with exactly the same score to Barcelona in the second round. This week the Italian champion did not allow a sensation to happen in Budapest. A 4:1 victory over Ferencv?ros seriously increased Juventus’s chances of reaching the group. More soccer prediction can be obtained from the link provided.
