Manchester City vs Borussia Dortmund Prediction & Betting Tips - Champions League

Prediction published on 03/04/2021, 23:58  by Nella Wagah | Modified on 04/04/2021 at 00:01 in Champions League Predictions

Borussia Dortmund suffered a big blow in their chase for a Champions League slot in the Bundesliga after suffering a home loss to Eintracht Frankfurt. Now they have to quickly dust themselves for the trip to Manchester City for their Champions League quarter final clash on Tuesday. Manchester City will be excited by their weekend gains, having beaten Leicester City 2-0 for their fifth straight win, and 26th victory in 27 matches. With just one loss in 34 matches across all competitions, City remains in contention for four different competitions and seem to have wrapped up the Premier League after their Saturday win. They go to this Champions League game having set four straight clean sheets and scored two or more goals in their last five matches. City will have a lot of fresh legs too for this game, having rested most top players against Leicester. Ilkay Gundogan, Joao Cancelo, John Stones, Ferran Torres, Bernardo Silva and Oleksandr Zinchenko didn’t feature at all, while Raheem Sterling was a late inclusion and provided an assist. City have been among the best performers in the Champions League this season and going here they haven’t lost a game this season, winning seven of the eight played. They’ve kept seven straight clean sheets and in the eight matches, they’ve scored two or more in six. In the last round, City faced a German opponent, Borussia Monchengladbach and easily dispatched them. They will be back at home for a Champions League game for the first time in three months and City should be in good shape for it, having won each of their last four home matches in the competition. They have lost just once in 13 Champions League home games. One of the biggest qualities City have had this season is their diversity in attack; they’ve had 10 different scorers in the Champions League and will be favorites to get a first ever win over Dortmund.

Dortmund have met City competitively in two matches, in 2012 in the Champions League, and the Germans won 2-1 across the two matches. They go to this match after a 2-1 home loss to Eintracht Frankfurt, which left their Champions League hopes in tatters. Their only win in the last five matches was against Hertha Berlin in mid March and the most positive news out of the team has been Erling Haaland’s form. As Dortmund’s struggles continue, the striker has been linked with a number of teams, among them City, and this will be a great platform for him to show what he can do. He’s already done well for Dortmund in the Champions League, scoring 10 goals in the eight matches they’ve played. Haaland’s quality hasn’t been repaid well by the team’s defensive performances; the loss to Frankfurt was the fourth time in five matches that they've conceded two goals or more. They have four clean sheets in the last 17 matches across all competitions too. Meanwhile, an attack inspired by Haaland has seen the team score two goals in four of the last five matches. In Champions League action, Dortmund are unbeaten in the last seven matches, winning five but keeping no clean sheet in the last four. They conceded two goals in their last game, against Sevilla, drawing 2-2 after having taken a 2-0 lead and they won’t be very glad with that performance. Even though they have three straight wins in their away matches in this competition, the teams they’ve faced are nothing close to City in terms of strength.