FC Copenhagen vs Manchester City
UEFA Champions League, KO: 17:45 Oct 11, 2022, Parken Stadium, Copenhagen
MANCHESTER CITY'S all-conquering bandwagon marches on to Denmark as they face a FC Copenhagen team who must be dreading this.
Pep Guardiola's side have looked unplayable recently and of course, that's largely been down to the goalscoring machine that is Erling Haaland.
His standards must be slipping though after only scoring once in their routine 4-0 thumping of Southampton on Saturday. The Norwegian is now on 21 goals for club and country in 15 appearances this season.
Whether he will start in Denmark, with qualification already in the bag, is debatable, but his presence should really make no difference to the outcome here.
City walloped FC Copenhagen 5-0 last week and barely got out of second gear to do it. The visitors didn't manage a single shot on target.
The Citizens are on a stunning run of form that has seen them win six in a row and scoring 26 goals in the process. They haven't lost all season apart from the Community Shield.
FC Copenhagen have collected just one point in the group when they managed to hold Sevilla to a goalless draw in the Danish capital.
But they have failed to score a single goal in the group and their league form is poor too – they sit in seventh out of 12th in the Superliga and drew 1-1 at home to Nordsjaelland at the weekend.
How the bookies view it
Manchester City are obviously enormous favourites here at around 1/8 although there is a bit of 2/13 around with SBK.
FC Copenhagen are 25/1 with Coral and the draw is 8/1 with UniBet.
Recent head to heads
As stated, Manchester City romped to a 4-0 win last week at the Etihad. They previously played in the 2009 UEFA Cup and City squeezed through 4-3 on aggregate.
Players to watch
Erling Haaland is surely priced up at one of the shortest odds on record just to score. He is around 1/3 everywhere, although you can get 2/5 with bet365.
Andreas Cornelius is Copenhagen's main striker, but he's only managed a solitary goal this term and that came on his first appearance of the season. He is 7/1 to score with William Hill.
Anything else catch the eye?
It surely should be a case of how many for City and also how seriously they are taking this, with qualification already almost in the bag.
But Pep Guardiola is big on treating opponents with respect and that means playing a very strong team.
City to win to nil is just about backable at 4/5 with Coral.
And the English champions really should win this with a few goals to spare. Take the 10/11 with bet365 on them to win minus two goals on the handicap.
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