Sporting Clube de Portugal - Manchester City ai prediction 15.02.2022 Champions League
Betting Tip for matchday 1 of the 2021/2022 Champions League between Sporting Clube de Portugal and Manchester City.
The knockout stage of the Champions League, first duel 1/8 finals. Sporting will meet Manchester City in Lisbon. This game represents a momentous occasion for Sporting Lisbon who are contesting their first UEFA Champions League (UCL) knockout stage tie since 2008/09. The Portuguese champions do come into this match after conceding more UCL goals (12) than any other side still left in the competition.
Our Champions League Predictions will focus on the extra ordinarily competitive odds from 1xBet and Betboro Ghana.
SPORTING LISBON
Although Sporting will enter as big underdogs, they do boast a solid recent home record in this competition, losing only one of their last five matches (W3, D1). A theme of that run was starting matches quickly, and impressively nine of their 12 goals across those games arrived inside the opening 45 minutes.
Last weekend, Sporting played 2-2 in a derby match against Porto and thus remained in 2nd place in the table with 6 points less than Porto and 4 more than city rival Benfica. They will hope their excellent performance in the Portugal league gives them enough confidence to make a surprise here as back in 2012 in the Europa League, Sporting beat Manchester City 1-0 at home.
This duel of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League is complete without pressure for Sporting. They are aware that this club does not have many chances against an overly strong English team, but some excellent performances in the group stage give them the right to hope for a big surprise. Back in 2012 in the Europa League, Sporting beat Manchester City 1-0 at home .
MANCHESTER CITY
Manchester City have progressed through this round in each of the last five years, and it’s easy to see why the tournament favourites are heavily backed to do so again. However manager Pep Guardiola won’t be taking anything for granted, particularly as City’s leaky defence failed to keep a clean sheet in UCL Group A despite topping the group (W4, L2).
Manchester City is first on the Premier League table and it is very certain that they will win another title after easily beating Norwich on the away field this weekend with 4-0, even though Guardiola rested a lot of players from the starting 11 such as De Bruyne, Rodri, Cancelo, Laporte … All of them should be on the field in the first match.
But the Champions League trophy is what they are missing in the collection and they will surely do their best this season to win it. Last year’s defeat in the final against Chelsea left a bitter taste.
POSSIBLE LINE-UP
SPORTING LISBON
- Adan
- Inacio
- Coates
- Feddal
- Porro
- Palhinha
- Luiz
- Matheus
- Sarabia
- Paulinho
- Goncalves
- COACH: Ruben Amorim
- MISSING PLAYERS: None
MANCHESTER CITY
- Ederson
- Stones
- Dias
- Laporte
- Cancelo
- De Bruyne
- Rodri
- Silva
- Mahrez
- Foden
- Sterling
- COACH: Josep Guardiola
- MISSING PLAYERS: Mendy (Disciplinary action by club), Palmer (Muscle injury), Jesus (Muscle injury), Greelish (Shin injury), Steffen (Back injury)
OUR SPORTING LISBON VS. MANCHESTER CITY BETTING TIPS
Sporting can be a bit of a wild-card side but they won’t be able to keep up with a motivated Manchester City. With De Bruyne and Cancelo running the show, City will roll. Hence we anticipate an AWAY & OVER 2.5 GOALS as the first of our betting tips today.
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