Premier League champions Manchester City replicated last year's highlight trajectory, taking advantage of the thickness of their squad in the middle of the league to quickly shake off their title-contenders. At present, Manchester City has played 25 rounds of Premier League matches, scored 63 points, riding the dust to lead the table, 9 points ahead of the second place Liverpool, Manchester City's offensive and defensive performance is also the best in the Premier League, scoring 61 goals, only conceding 14 goals, so stable play, it seems that there is not much suspense for the title.
According to the statistics of the record, Manchester City from the first game in November last year in the Champions League 4-1 defeat bruges, until the latest round of the Premier League 4-0 defeat of Norwich, in just over 3 months to achieve the Champions League, FA Cup, Premier League 3 lines of the outbreak of the grand situation, during the 20 games only 1 draw and 1 loss, won 18 games, thus becoming the Champions League, FA Cup, Premier League 3 major events to win the first favorite, the FA Cup strong into the 5th round; the Champions League forced Paris to play the knockout game as a seeded team, And drew a big package, in the quarter-finals PK strength is relatively weak Portuguese sports; the Premier League rode a dust to lead the standings.
Beijing time at 4:00 a.m. on February 16, Manchester City ushered in the Champions League 1/8 final, the team in full state "nibbled" the big package, football star Irving made a prediction for this game, thinking that the Champions League away game has not been easy, but for Manchester City will be very simple, because Portuguese sports is Manchester City in the 1/8 final draw the best draw, Portuguese sports can only take intensive defense at home, Irving said that he is optimistic about Manchester City's 2-0 victory over Portuguese sports.
Before the match, City's top defender Hasello attended the press conference, saying that winning the Champions League is the team's goal and the current atmosphere in the team is very good, suggesting that the team's current record and form are ideal, and the team is eager to win the Champions League. Portuguese sports coach Amorim also felt the strong side of Manchester City, in an interview bluntly said that Guardiola is the best coach in the world today, Manchester City's technology and tactics are also the most advanced in the world, and take primary school students and high school students as an analogy, think that compared with Guardiola, he is like a primary school student, Guardiola is like a high school student, but he still hopes that Portuguese sports can create miracles and beat Manchester City.
As the Champions League knockout rounds are in full swing in these days, the relevant data agency "538" gave the latest analysis and predictions, once again believing that Manchester City is the first favorite to win the Champions League this season, with a 25% probability of winning the Champions League this season; the second is Bayern, with a 20% probability of winning the title; Liverpool 14%, Ajax 13%, Chelsea 10%, Real Madrid 4%, Paris 4%, Atletico Madrid 2%, Villarreal 2%, Inter 2%. Manchester United, Juventus, Benfica, Salzburg, Sporting Portugal and Lille have a less than 1% chance of winning the title. According to this analysis, both Ronaldo and Messi have a high probability of missing out on this season's Champions League, and Guardiola is expected to usher in a new peak.