In a match between two European powerhouses who desperately need to win to avoid complicating their hopes of at least advancing to the playoffs, Juventus will host Manchester City in Turin on Wednesday for the sixth matchday of the 2024-2025 Champions League league phase .
The Old Lady is not in the best of form. Although they have not lost in nine games between Serie A and the Champions League, seven have been draws. They are 17th in the table with eight points, they went from winning their first two games against PSV and Leipzig to losing to Stuttgart and drawing in their last matches against Lille and Aston Villa.
For Pep Guardiola, the present is not ideal either. He was able to end the atypical streak of seven games without a win with the 2-0 against Nottingham Forest in the Premier League, but in his last appearance he left doubts again in the 2-2 against Crystal Palace. Returning to victory at the Juventus Stadium after the 1-4 against Sporting Lisbon and the 3-3 against Feyenoord is of the utmost importance.
When it comes to choosing one of the odds offered by Betway, the Norwegian striker is a sure thing in the Champions League. With five goals in five games, he has been spared from the team’s slump in recent matches and always manages to score. Excited by having celebrated in the last two games against Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace and being one of the star scorers of the European season with 18 goals in 21 games, he will try to make Juventus another of his victims.
The irregular performance of both sides at the end of the year is reflected in their poor scoring ability, especially that of Manchester City. The crisis that the team went through was reflected in poor results and cost them a lot away from the Etihad, with six games without a win and an average of just one goal per game. Meanwhile, Juventus, with a coach like Thiago Motta who usually plays tight games, scored three goals in their last four games, of which two ended 0-0. With this background, a close and disputed duel is foreseen.
