MANCHESTER CITY – BASEL CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

The Manchester City has recently won the League Cup by beating Arsenal sharply in the final and is now very close to winning the Premier League. The only drawback was the premature elimination in the FA Cup against a League One team, Wigan. Now, however, he has no intention of stopping and aims to triumph in the Champions League. A competition in which it is practically already certain to reach the quarter-finals, thanks to the net 4-0 external trimmed to Basel in the first leg of the second round.

The path towards the Kiev final is still very long, but the lineup trained by Pep Guardiola obviously deserves to be considered among the favorites for winning the main European club competition. During the game scheduled at the Etihad Stadium in the next few hours, even though he intends to leave some regulars to rest, the Spanish coach should lead his team to the umpteenth convincing success.

The Citizens will probably grant something in the phase of non-possession, because they should deploy the discontinuous Claudio Bravo in the door and the never too convincing John Stones at the center of the defense. Besides proposing Oleksandr Zinchenko as left-back. A player who has played in this position only in recent months and was previously used to acting as a midfielder, offensive offensive or playmaker. In attack, however, Guardiola seems ready to raise from the first minute Gabriel Jesus, formidable Brazilian player, eager to return to show off, after being stopped by physical problems.

The Basel will try to score at least one goal, relying on the attack trio of Valentin Stocker, Mohamed Elyounoussi and Dimitri Oberlin, but has little chance of aspiring to something more. His seasonal journey at European level, however brilliant and worthy of an underlining, will presumably close with a defeat in Manchester.
The probable formations of Manchester City-Basel

MANCHESTER CITY (4-3-3): Bravo; Danilo, Stones, Laporte, Zinchenko; De Bruyne, Gundogan, Foden; Bernardo Silva, Gabriel Jesus, Sterling.
BASEL (3-4-3): Vaclik; Lacroix, Suchy, Riveros; Lang, Zuffi, Serey Dié, Petretta; Stocker, Elyounoussi, Oberlin.

Prediction Today: 3-1, 1
Odds: 1.16