This Tuesday, 24th February, Manchester City is host to Barcelona at the Etihad Stadium for their next game of the UEFA Champions League.
Both teams are doing extremely well in their respective leagues, Manchester City is second in the Premier League while Barcelona is second in the La Liga and just one point below Real Madrid.
Surprisingly, these teams haven’t actually played each other very often. But they did play twice last year, in February Barcelona beat Manchester City 0 – 2 and in March Barcelona won once again, 2 – 1.
Unfortunately for Manchester City the bookies believe that they are headed for another defeat. The odds on City winning are 49/20 while the odds on Barcelona are considerably shorter at 11/10. A draw has been set at 13/5. Nonetheless, in the correct score markets the shortest odds, 6/1, are on a 1 – 1 draw followed by 15/2 on a 2 – 1 win for Barcelona.
In their last Champions League game Manchester City beat Roma 0 – 2 and they finished second in Group E.
Barcelona beat PSG 3 – 1 in their last Champions League game and they finished top of Group F.
