For the third consecutive period, Manchester City have attracted against Shakhtar Donetsk in their Champions League group.
Both sides possess one victory apiece in Kharkiv (the hosts’ temporary home)–Shakhtar winning the 2017 encounter 2-1, before City thumped these 3-0 final year –so let us just call this one the decider, shall we?
City will need to dust themselves down following their shambolic performance at Norwich, nevertheless those asserting that Pep Guardiola’s side have lost their magic touch are bonkers. There’s enough attacking firepower within that squad to choose any side in the world into the cleaners, therefore any assumptions they will continue to fight are ridiculous.
To the terror of many fans, Manchester City will soon be without Aymeric Laporte and John Stones for this particular trip to Ukraine, and while a bad defensive display was their undoing from the Canaries, the negative as a collective would be too great to keep slipping-up, and that’s why I expect them to win and teams to score; ownership will still be dominated, chances will still be created.
Nicol??s Otamendi and Fernandinho are Pep’s likely centre-halves on Wednesday–barely watertight–so an away clean sheet does not look likely because City have kept only two clean sheets in their six games this season.
While Skahktar have traditionally been excellent at home, brings to Lyon and Hoffenheim last season to accompany the City conquer capped-off a rather bad Champions League campaign, and I hope they’ll bear the entire brunt of City’s fury since Pep indicates the Europe his side imply business once more.
7/4 is a real tempter for this particular one. ??
I’m also backing Shakhtar midfielder Taras Stepanenko to have shown a card.
The 30-year-old has been reserved at three of his seven Premier League matches this season, and in the Shakhtar side he’s committed the second-highest amount of fouls-per-game for the previous two Champions League campaigns.
Stepanenko will likely be his team’s enforcer on Wednesday, and that I enjoy 9/5 a card to be brandished in his leadership.
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