Juventus vs Manchester City Prediction: 11/12/2024

Juventus is having a challenging Champions League campaign this season, unable to secure a win in their last three matches. They earned two draws, 1-1 against Lille and 0-0 against Aston Villa in London, but suffered a 1-0 defeat at home to Stuttgart. With 8 points, Juventus currently sits 19th in the group standings. Despite this, their loss to Stuttgart is their only defeat since the start of the current season, and they are aiming to bounce back after a series of draws in Serie A, including a 0-0 result against AC Milan and a 1-1 draw with Lecce.

Manchester City, under the management of Pep Guardiola, is also going through a tough spell. Despite winning the Premier League six times and claiming the Champions League title two years ago, City has failed to win any matches recently, recording six losses and one draw across all competitions. Their most recent setbacks include a 4-1 loss to Sporting, with Viktor Gyökeres scoring a hat-trick, and a 3-3 draw against Feyenoord after leading 3-0.

Juventus is struggling with several key injuries, including Bremer, Vlahovic, Milik, Douglas Luiz, Cabal, McKennie, Adzic, and new signing Nico Gonzalez. Thiago Motta was limited to just 17 available players for the Aston Villa match, but he can still rely on players like Kalulu, Locatelli, Thuram, Conceicao, Koopmeiners, Yildiz, and Weah, who has scored 4 goals in Serie A. Young midfielder Fagioli, who is a target for Marseille, will also be available.

For Manchester City, the absence of Rodri, who is out for the season with a cruciate ligament injury, is a significant blow. His potential replacements, Stones and Kovacic, are also injured. However, Belgian winger Doku has returned from injury and will travel to Piedmont, alongside star players like Erling Haaland, Foden, Bernardo Silva, and Kevin De Bruyne. City’s main issue remains the lack of goal-scoring options beyond Haaland, who has netted 12 goals in the Premier League. Gvardiol and Kovacic are the next highest scorers with just three goals each.

Prediction

Matches involving Manchester City in the Champions League, especially away games, tend to feature fewer than 3.5 goals, with this pattern observed in their last 17 away games. Similarly, 16 of Juventus’s last 19 home matches in the competition have also seen fewer than 3.5 goals. Therefore, a low-scoring match is anticipated.

Prediction: Juventus 1 : 1 Manchester City.