Should Man City be Champions League favourites over Liverpool? | ESPN FC

ESPN FC's Steve Nicol, Shaka Hislop and Dan Thomas dive into 2019-20 UEFA Champions League title odds with Manchester City currently favoured at 11-4 and Liverpool sitting in second at 6-1. Nicol argues Liverpool should be ahead of Man City based on the team's head-to-head result from the Premier League despite Jurgen Klopp's men "not playing at their best" while Hislop believes Pep Guardiola's squad is focused solely on Champions League results and the Premier League title would be icing on the cake if it happened. The crew also looks at Lionel Messi's outstanding run at Barcelona and whether the star's presence alone is reason to never count the team out.

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[francisliang]

Every year City is favourite, every year in champions league, City can't go pass quarter-final

[finalfantasyem]

Liverpool are favorite to win as long as they don't face Napoli at any stage of Knock out

[romeodesilva]

Ngl I won’t be surprised if Jose Mourinho pulls off something special in the cl

[Atletrebahan]

VAR CHECKED : No Ucl champion for man city

[joshuaprince]

Man city were favorites last two years, And we know how that turned out

[mustsilm]

Why should Man City be considered favorites. They drew their last 2 group games against Shaktar and Atalanta. They have problems with defense. They are now miles behind Pool in league. They have no history winning it before.

[taliamason]

Never in a million years should a team that has absolutely no identity in Europe be favourites over the one that has made it their own playground for the last 4 few decades. Lets not forget Liverpool are the reigning Champions. Meanwhile City are the 3 time reigning Quarter Final specialists.

[hugohernandez]

Manchester City is a small club with a big wallet. Even Pep says it. Liverpool has a great team and European pedigree.

[mohamadhanifbinaref]

It's kinda funny when you're recycling back the title from the 2-3 years back

[KendrickSimphao]

*No one expected Liverpool to win UCL last year*

[thabanemhlongo]

what has City done in the competition to be favorites? no worries we feed on being the underdog anyway.

[daviddenicola]

Juve are the only unbeaten team in Europe. Biased af

[fernandopizarrovillagarcia]

Where's Ajax? Odds are just numbers of expectancy, not reality

[cthoffman]

Can't even beat Liverpool and are behind Leicester in the league but they gonna win ucl? Come on that's a rhetorical question.

[Tourayebrimas]

Man city will be always bottling UEFA champions league like PSG lol.

[teekhoza]

Let's not forget Madrid they are specialists when in comes to winning the UCL.. just saying

[bshn]

The epl bias is real yet again. But I'm not surprised anymore

[ajr]

If you ever feel stupid about things you’ve done watch these “pundits” everyday. You’ll feel like a genius.

[losblancosynadamas]

With that defense man city doesn't stand a chance to win ucl and shouldn't have been favourites. Also can someone explain why Barcelona is ahead of real Madrid, psg, Bayern and Juventus as favourites to win ucl?

[kopxpert]

LFC fan here but it makes sense Man City is faves over LFC in CL right now. CIty have qualified and LFC still could lose to Salzburg and eliminated from CL. Salzburg can definitely beat us especially at their home ground