📊 Form Guide
Manchester City WWWLWW
Manchester City, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 3-1 Premier League success versus Bournemouth.
In that match, Manchester City had 49% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 8 on target. For Manchester City, goals were scored by Erling Haaland (17', 33') and Nico O'Reilly (60'). Bournemouth got 8 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Tyler Adams (25') was the scorer for Bournemouth.
Their more recent scorelines highlight the fact that things are going according to plan in the Manchester City backline. Manchester City have been miserly, resulting in the total number of goals that have gone past their goalkeeper during their previous 6 matches standing at 3.
Borussia Dortmund DLWWDW
Borussia Dortmund will go into this encounter following on from a 0-1 Bundesliga win versus Augsburg in their last outing.
In that game, Borussia Dortmund managed 53% possession and 5 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. The only player to score for Borussia Dortmund was Serhou Guirassy (37'). For their opponents, Augsburg had 9 attempts on goal with 1 on target.
Over the course of their previous six outings, Borussia Dortmund have helped themselves to a total of 9 goals. Borussia Dortmund have also managed to score on each one of those occasions. Over that period, they’ve seen 6 goals go against them. Despite that, it remains to be seen whether the trend shall be sustained in this match or not.
↔️ Head to head
Inspecting their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 03/10/2012 shows that Manchester City have won 3 of them & Borussia Dortmund 1, with the tally of draws standing at 2.
A combined total of 12 goals were scored between them in this period, with 7 for The Citizens and 5 for Dortmund. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.
The last league match featuring the two was Champions League match day 5 on 25/10/2022 when it ended Borussia Dortmund 0-0 Manchester City.
On that day, Borussia Dortmund had 27% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 on target.
At the other end, Manchester City had 8 shots on goal with 3 of them on target.
The match was refereed by Davide Massa.
ℹ️ Team News: Manchester City
The Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has no fitness worries to speak of before this match thanks to a completely healthy group to choose from.
We are thinking that The Citizens may well use the 4-1-4-1 formation, beginning the first half with Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matheus Nunes, John Stones, Ruben Dias, Nico O'Reilly, Nico Gonzalez, Savinho, Tijjani Reijnders, Phil Foden, Jeremy Doku and Erling Haaland.
🗞️ Team News: Borussia Dortmund
Owing to a completely injury-free squad ready to go, the Borussia Dortmund boss Niko Kovač does not have any fitness worries to report before this game.
We believe Dortmund will likely begin the game with a 3-4-2-1 system, going with Gregor Kobel, Waldemar Anton, Nico Schlotterbeck, Ramy Bensebaini, Julian Ryerson, Marcel Sabitzer, Felix Nmecha, Daniel Svensson, Karim Adeyemi, Maximilian Beier and Serhou Guirassy.
✨ Prediction
It’s pretty clear that Borussia Dortmund will surely find it tough to be scoring even one goal against a Manchester City side who look likely to do really well if they play to their full potential.
We can see a 3-0 win for Manchester City after 90 minutes.
Lucas Pereira, 19:01 05/11/2025