Manchester City take on the visitors Bayern Munich in the first leg of UEFA Champions League quarterfinals. The match will be played on Tuesday, April 11th at Etihad Stadium (Manchester).
Manchester City are having a fairly contradictory season. It is still too early to make evaluations, although it should be acknowledged that there has already been a defeat in the Super Cup from Liverpool, and an early exit from the League Cup. Yes, there is still a fight in other tournaments. In the FA Cup, the "Blue Moon" reached the semi-finals, and in the Premier League, they are holding onto second place. However, "Arsenal" is persistently maintaining distance and keeping the lead, and there is less and less time to catch up. In the last round of the Premier League, Holland and company easily defeated Southampton, but the distance between opponents is still significant, and there are even fewer matches left until the end. Undoubtedly, everything can be changed if success is achieved in the Champions League format. Essentially, the Catalan was invited to Foggy Albion to finally take the "Big-Eared Cup". But over time, the brilliant coach only once led his charges to the final - and even then to lose to "Chelsea"! In 2022, seemingly having a significant advantage both at home and in Spain, the English were eliminated from the semi-finals by "Real". Now there was also a fairly unclear play-off game in Germany when "RB Leipzig" allowed a draw of 1-1. However, they easily crushed the Germans at home, winning 7-0.
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Bayern are one of the main giants of German football, and a team that is known to anyone who follows the "game of millions." But at the same time, it is currently a "dark horse". This month, they started with a new coach, Thomas Tuchel returned to his homeland. The turbulence that was characteristic of the one and a half years of play under Nagelsmann's leadership has already tired the bosses of the ambitious project. Last season was essentially a failure, and they did not dare to risk getting a new failure in Munich, replacing Julian with a more experienced specialist before the final stretch. Interestingly, the new coach debuted against Borussia Dortmund, which he once coached, and, beating them 4-2, returned Bayern to 1st place in the Bundesliga table. Then there were immediately 2 matches with Freiburg, in the cup and a new round of the championship - and they lost the first of them. But is it worth making serious conclusions after 2-3 matches? It is quite possible that in choosing the ex-manager of Chelsea, they remembered that in London he won the Champions League at a similar moment? And he beat Guardiola's City in the deciding match.
So far, the teams in the Champions League have shown that they are evenly matched. They exchanged victories in each cycle when they met in 2011, 2013, and 2014. But then the English and Germans only crossed paths in the group stage. Guardiola has been working with his team much longer than Tuchel. We recommend betting that the "Citizens" will win here.
Prediction for the match: Manchester City to win.
