UEFA Champions League---Manchester City VS Borussia Dortmund Prediction

Manchester City VS Borussia Dortmund    Livescore / H2H stats and Live Streaming
Time:06-11-2025 04:00 Thursday
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Calmly going about their continental business in the early stages of the 2025-26 season, Pep Guardiola's Man City have already faced three revered European teams in Napoli, Monaco and Villarreal, and a haul of seven points is nothing to be scoffed at.

The Sky Blues took down Napoli and Villarreal 2-0 either side of an enthralling four-goal stalemate with Monaco, but while scoring multiple goals in each game is an applaudable feat, the hosts' six strikes makes them the lowest scorers inside the top 12 of the standings.

Nevertheless, City's seventh-placed ranking would suffice for direct entry to the last 16, and Guardiola's men have been busy righting some domestic wrongs over the past week, securing successive 3-1 triumphs over Swansea City and Bournemouth after an agonising away defeat to Aston Villa.

The electrifying Erling Haaland joined two Liverpool greats in an exclusive goalscoring club with his brace against the latter in Sunday's Premier League win, which lifted the Citizens back into the top two of the table, albeit still six points behind leaders Arsenal.

Extending that unblemished record will be easier said than done if the form book is anything to go by, though, as Niko Kovac's visitors have been on the goalscoring warpath in this season's Champions League, netting no fewer than four goals in every game so far.

After an absorbing 4-4 draw with Juventus and 4-1 thrashing of Athletic Bilbao, BVB struck another quartet of European goals in the Danish capital, slaying Copenhagen 4-2 thanks partly to a Felix Nmecha brace and two assists from Jobe Bellingham.

The latter result saw Dortmund score four goals in three straight European Cup/Champions League matches for the first time in their history, and their terrific 12 goals is the joint second-most in the league phase so far, level with Klassiker rivals Bayern Munich and one inferior to Paris Saint-Germain's 13.

Interestingly, Kovac's men have been less potent on the domestic front - scoring just one goal in three straight games against Koln, Eintracht Frankfurt and Augsburg - but one strike was all it took to win all three matches; the Frankfurt fixture saw Dortmund win on penalties in the DFB-Pokal after a 1-1 draw.

Match Prediction: Manchester City 2-1 Borussia Dortmund
Only the reigning European champions have been more potent than Dortmund in this season's Champions League so far, and Guardiola's backline should not emerge from this contest unscathed.
However, the hosts can always fight fire with fire when Haaland is in such unstoppable form, and we can envisage a third straight 2-1 win for the Sky Blues against their German counterparts.