City have the opportunity to secure a place in the knockout stage of a competition with a victory over Lech Poznan in Poland. Roberton Mancini’s side currently lead the Group A with seven points while Lech Poznan are second placed with four, just one point clear of Juventus. In the first-leg, Manchester City defeated Lech Poznan 3-1 at Eastlands thanks to an Adebayor hat-trick, which also put City on 99 European goals. This bad result for Polish team allowed to coach Jacek Zielinski being replaced by former Barcelona midfielder Jose Mari Bakero this week.Yaya Toure and his brother Kolo won’t travel to Poland to recover from their injuries. In contrast, Argentinian striker Carlos Tevez makes his return to the starting line-up after have recovered from his injury thigh. In the same way, Mario Balotelli travel to Poland.
Former Barça and Champions League winner (1992) Jose Maria Bakero will be able to count with the services of Artjoms Rudòevs, who could return to Lech's starting line-up after appearing from the bench at Eastlands. Also Aleksandar Kolarov could be return after being sidelined due to an ankle injury, though he will likely start from the bench.
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Lech Poznan vs. Manchester City Betting Tips
Manchester City starts this match as an overwhelming favourite, with William Hill offering best odds of 4/6 on the visitors. The draw is going for 3/1 at Betfair and you can back the home team at odds of 5/1 at the exchange.
Form suggests that Lech Poznan has a better chance in this match than the odds suggest, and that this could be a tough fixture for City.
Our Lech Poznan vs. Manchester City betting tip is therefore to swerve the match markets, and put your money on a high scoring match, with Bet365 offering odds of 1/1 on over 2.75 goals being scored in this fixture.