Find the latest match odds for Manchester City vs Club Brugge. All odds are provided by our best football betting sites. Odds are subject to change. Manchester City began the season as favourites to win the Champions League. No one saw this coming. Almost everyone expected City to end the league stage in the top eight and thus qualify automatically for the round of Ahead of matchday eight, City are 25th in the standings.
They started their continental campaign pretty well. A draw with Inter was a slightly disappointing outcome first up, but City then beat Slovan Bratislava and Sparta Prague without getting out of second gear. Since then, however, the Premier League champions have collected just one point from a possible 12, a remarkable tally given their consistency across all fronts in recent years. City suffered a spanking by a Sporting CP side still led by Ruben Amorim, before Feyenoord came from three goals down to draw at the Etihad Stadium in dramatic fashion.
A limp defeat by Juventus followed, before City saw a lead turn into a loss to Paris Saint-Germain last week. That result has left them on the brink.
Still, the bookies fancy City to get the job done this week. Sure, a play-off place would be a worse outcome than most people anticipated back in September, but it would hardly be a disaster. No one will relish facing City over two legs next month. Granted, City were poor against PSG last time out. In the Premier League, though, they are second in the form table over the last six rounds of fixtures, the most recent of which saw them register a morale-boosting victory over Chelsea.
Because of how the new-look league phase works, not every team knows exactly what they need this week. City do, however: a win on Wednesday would keep their hopes of a second Champions League triumph alive.
