According to the Opta Predictor, Manchester City are favourites to win the Uefa Champions League, with 31.2 per cent chances of lifting the trophy at Wembley in June. They would become only the second team over the last 30 years to successfully defend the title, after Real Madrid’s hat-trick from 2016 to 2018.
In the Top 6 favourites to win this season’s Uefa Champions League, Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain are the only clubs yet to lift Europe’s premier club trophy.
FC Copenhagen (vs Manchester City), Lazio (vs Bayern Munich) and RB Leipzig (vs Real Madrid) are the main underdogs going into the round of 16; they all have under 25 per cent chances of making into the quarterfinals of the Uefa Champions League. The differential between Manchester City and FC Copenhagen in our Global Power Rankings is also the largest among the round of 16 match-ups.
The game between PSV Eindhoven and Borussia Dortmund is the most evenly split according to the Opta Predictor. BVB are slight favourites with 57.3 per cent chances of making it to the quarterfinals (to PSV’s 42.7 per cent).
Among the eight teams that finished second in their group and therefore will host the first leg, Internazionale and Paris Saint-Germain are the only sides with over 50 per cent chances of reaching the quarterfinals.
FC Copenhagen have never beaten Manchester City in four previous meetings in all competitions (D2 L2), drawing both home matches against the Citizens (2-2 in 2008-09 Uefa Cup, 0-0 in last season’s Uefa Champions League).
Manchester City have never won away against Danish opposition in major European competition, drawing with FC Copenhagen in 2009 (Uefa Cup) and 2022 (Uefa Champions League), and losing at Aalborg BK in 2009 (Uefa Cup). They did,
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