Manchester City vs B. Monchengladbach: Prediction and Betting Tips

Manchester City chasing a quadruple

As the season enters its last quarter, The Citizens who are battling on four fronts will be looking to achieve an incredible quadruple. Pep Guardiola’s team are in the EFL cup final, FA Cup Quarter Final, 11 points clear at the Premier League and on the verge of UCL last eight.

After an unbeaten group stage campaign where Manchester City conceded just one goal in six matches, Guardiola watched his team ease off past M’gladbach in the first leg 2-0. Both matches are being played at Puskás Aréna for Covid restrictions.

A goal in each of both halves in the first leg sealed the deal for the Citizens. They dominated with their possession game and enjoyed 60% possession and a staggering 819 passes. Out of nine-goal attempts they had four on target and scored two.

An impossible task for B. Monchengladbach 

It has been a very bad spell for M’gladbach the last month in terms of results and form. Die Fohlen have lost their last four matches in the Bundesliga and the first leg of the UCL match against Manchester City.

With an average of two goals per game conceded in the last five games, coach Marco Rose has to find solutions for his defense. In the UCL matches as well M’gladbach have seen their opponents hit the back of their net 11 times in seven matches.

Marco Rose’s team has to do much better than they did in the 1st leg, Di Fohlen had just three goal attempts with one of them on target. 

Key Stats

• Manchester City have scored in three of their last three UCL home matches.
• Manchester City have scored nine goals in their three UCL home matches 
• B.Monchengladbach have won one of their last three UCL away matches
• B Monchengladbach have two clean sheets in the UCL this season

Manchester City vs B. Monchengladbach predictions

There is a clear favorite for this match with Manchester City very unlikely to be eliminated in this tie. In the first leg, we had a prediction of Man City to win with 2-0 score and we hit it. 

It is more difficult to predict this match with the correct score as it depends on the way M’gladbach will approach it. We will go with total match goals scored. 

If we look at their stats, four matches of Man City and Five matches of M’gladbach have over 2.5 goals scored in the UCL. Thus we predict over 2.5 total match goals.

Manchester City vs B. Monchengladbach Betting Tips

Over 2.5 total match goals 1.53 or 8/15 at William Hill

Both Teams To Score 2.05 or 21/20 at William Hill