This bet would have landed in 8 of Manchester City’s last 9 games, as Pep Guardiola struggles to get his previously well oiled machine to perform as he would like.

Juventus are not renowned for goals. They have scored just 7 in 5 games in Europe, and 24 in 15 in Serie A. But my opinion is that all City games will be good for goals at the moment, they cannot seem to exert any kind of control over their opposition as they could in the past.

Vlahovic missed the last matchday through injury, but returned to action at the weekend with an assist. Juventus played 3 games without him and only scored once.

As a lone striker, he will be expected to get through plenty of defensive work. He averages 1.1 foul per 90 in Serie A, and 1.7 per 90 in Europe.

During City’s poor run of form, Haaland has scored 4 goals in 8 games. It’s crazy that a poor run of form for him is a hot run of form for most strikers.

In those 8 games, Haaland has taken a total of 37 shots, an average of 4.6 per game. He covered the 3+ shots bet in 6 of those 8 games, and in 5 out of 5 Champions League games.

We’re already on Haaland to have 3+ shots within the game, so that makes it quite likely that he will hit the target with one of them.

He has hit the target with at least once with a shot in every game during City’s poor run of form, and has done the same in every Champions League game. He has had 18 shots on target in the last 8 games, and 15 shots on target in 5 Champions League games.

As ever, we will up the ante on Bet Builder 2 by taking Haaland to have 4+ shots in the match.

This has landed in 4 out of City’s 5 Champions League games, with Haaland one shot shy in the other game. It is within his average shots per 90 number in both league and Europe.

Juventus haven’t conceded many goals, but they haven’t really played any stellar teams as of yet.

As per leg 1, we are upping the ante on Haaland again this time with 2+ shots on target in the game.

Again, this is well within his per 90 averages in both the Premier League and Champions League. He has had 12 shots on target in his last 3 games in Europe. He continues to get into goalscoring positions, even if he is not scoring at his usual rate.

Koopmeiners usually operates in behind the striker, but he is not a typical number ten in that he likes to get stuck in.

He has committed 2+ fouls in 3 out of 4 Champions League starts so far, and as many as 4 in one game. City have plenty of players capable of drawing fouls consistently with the likes of Grealish, Savinho, Doku and Nunes.

I think it could be a busy night for the Juventus keeper, who is likely to be Michele Di Gregorio.

He won FotMob’s man of the match award at Villa Park last time out, despite having to make just 2 saves. City possess a larger attacking threat than Villa, and should be playing with a point to prove. They have the likes of De Bruyne, Grealish and Doku coming back to full fitness, which should help matters.