Wow! What a comeback for Manchester City! Down 1-0 in the second half to crosstown rivals Manchester United in the derby, the Sky Blues still found a way to get it done. Now they’ll take on FC Copenhagen, in a midweek European affair, feeling as high as can be.
Phil Foden is playing at a level right now that is every bit as world class as can be.
UCL Round of 16, Leg 2 of 2, FYIs
Kickoff: Wed. Mar. 6, 8 pm, Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK
Aggregate: Man City 3, FC Copenhagen 1
Manchester City Preview Material: Team News Starting XI Prediction
Result Probability: FC Copenhagen 5% Draw 10% Manchester City 85%
You can put him up in the same class with Erling Haaland, Rodri, Kevin De Bruyne and Ruben Dias, in terms of how much they mean to Man City. In filling out our starting lineup prediction for Wednesday, we rotated out Nathan Ake and Bernardo Silva, but considered dropping a couple more big names.
Maybe Julian Alvarez, Mattheus Nunes, Rico Lewis and Oscar Bobb all get some tick here? Pep Guardiola will certainly need to shuffle his sides this month, as March contains a ton of big games.
Manchester Starting XI Prediction vs FC Copenhagen
Ederson; Kyle Walker, Ruben Dias, Manuel Akanji; Rodri, John Stones; Phil Foden, Julian Alvarez, Kevin De Bruyne, Jeremy Doku; Erling Haaland
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