Red Star-Manchester City is a match from the sixth day of the Champions League group stage and is played Wednesday at 6:45 pm: tv, predictions.
Red Star, bottom of Group G with only one point won in the first five days of the group stage, no longer has a chance to continue its continental adventure even in the Europa League.
Third place, currently occupied by the Swiss side Young Boys, is unreachable even if they win in the last round against Manchester City. In fact, if both of them were to finish with 4 points, it would always be the Swiss who would finish third, thanks to the direct clashes: the 2-0 victory of the yellow-and-whites in Bern two weeks ago was decisive. Nothing to do, then, for Barak Bakhar’s men. Who, in any case, will try to save their honor against the reigning European champions in a match in which there are very few meanings. Red Star in this European campaign has almost exclusively collected defeats. The only time it managed to bring home a positive result was in the first leg match with Young Boys, which ended 2-2. The Belgrade red-and-whites after the Berne drubbing consoled themselves with two straight league wins against Napredak and Mladost that allowed them to join historical rivals Partizan, last weekend’s surprise defeat by Radnicki, at the top of the Serbian top flight.
Guardiola announces turnover
For Manchester City, the “Marakana” challenge is basically a friendly. Guardiola has already announced that he will turnover, prioritizing the upcoming Premier League challenge.
(A Manchester City formation IlVeggente.it (Ansa)
The Cityzens over the last weekend broke a four-day winless streak – three draws and one defeat – that caused Haaland and his teammates to slip as low as fourth, -4 from the top. The return of a key player like Rodri in midfield was instrumental in last Sunday’s match with Luton Town, beaten 2-1 in a comeback. City so far in the cup has won them all (five wins out of five) and in the Serbian capital has a chance to remain on full points. Lots of second lines that the Catalan coach will employ in Belgrade: in attack it will be Julian Alvarez’s turn.
The prediction
Manchester City turned a corner against Luton Town but did not shine at all at home of the newly promoted side. Guardiola in the Belgrade trip is relying on the desire of the second lines to show off and climb the hierarchy. Victory should come all the same but it is unlikely that the Cityzens will also keep their goal inviolate. Not least because the last clean sheet was over a month ago.
The likely lineups for Red Star-Manchester City
RED STAR (4-2-3-1): Glazer; Nedeljković, Dragović, Djiga, Rodić; Stamenić, Mijailović; Lučić, Hwang, Ivanić; Bukari.
MANCHESTER CITY (4-2-3-1): Ortega; Lewis, Stones, Aké, Sergio Gómez; Phillips, Kovačić; Bobb, Matheus Nunes, Grealish; Julian Álvarez.
