Betting tips for Manchester City vs Lyon 19.09.2018

The Premier League champion receives in this debut of the group stage of the Champions League Olympique Lyon.

Manchester City opens its third season with Pep Guardiola sitting on the bench. Skyblue team won the Premier League last season establishing a series of brands in points, advantage with the second, goals in favor, etc ...

The Citizens' main goal is to maintain that superiority in the Premier League, looking to fight for the Champions League, something that has not happened with the Catalan activist sitting on the bench. With one of the most important budgets of European football (1006 million euros), the second Manchester team has made an investment of 71 million euros in hiring the great Riyad Mahrez, from Leicester, and the Dutch central Philippe Sandler, coming from the Zwolle. In the chapter of departures, goalkeeper Angus Gunn goes to Southampton, leaving in box 11.3 million euros, while Nigerian striker Olarenwaju Kayode left transferred to Shakhtar Donetsk for another 3 million euros.

The Citizens have played all three of their International Champions Cup matches, falling to Borussia Dortmund (0-1) and Liverpool (1-2), before defeating Guardiola's former team, Bayern Munich (2-3). In all these meetings have missed many of the internationals who have played the World Cup, such as Sterling and De Bruyne. In addition, both Foden and Mahrez are in doubt.

The team debuted by winning at Arsenal in London (0-2), defeated at home to Huddersfield Town (6-1), drew at Wolverhampton (1-1) and won the last two games.

Danilo, Claudio Bravo, De Bruyne and Mangala are injured.

The Olympique Lyon of Bruno Genesio opened the season with a convincing victory against Amiens (2-0), in the first game played at home, but the defeat in Reims generated many doubts about the team's poor play and lack of reaction after conceding the goal in the first half. The last day, the team won at home to Strasbourg with a comfortable 2-0 in what would be the last game played by Mariano.

The OL will have 350 million euros to fight for the title with the last champions, PSG and AS Monaco. Although the team has been strengthened by the signings of midfielder Tanguy Ndombele, Manchester City central midfielder Jason Denayer and right-back Nantes Léo Dubois, the fact is that important players have left the team for a value close to 70 million of euros: Willem Geubbels went to AS Monaco; Mouctar Diakhaby to Valencia; Myziane Maolida to Nice; N'Koulou to Torino; Mateta al Mainz 05; Kalulu to Basel; From the Castle to Rennes; and finally, the return of Mariano to Real Madrid.

Manchester City vs Lyon Prediction: 1/1 1.60

Manchester City vs Lyon   Betting Tip: Over 3.5 Goals @ 1.80

Manchester City vs Lyon Score Recommendations: 3-1 10.00