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Yea, it's very true that Manchester city are the favourite in this game against Brentford, especially as they are on their home turf, and a win is very much likely, even and over 2.5 as predicted by you, because if you check their goal scoring record especially at home, it's very much logical to understand why you bet on the outcome of that game like that, but the option of betting on them to first score in the the game I think is actually not ideal, because this is football, anything can happen, Brentford might decide to break on the counter and score first in the match, and if that happens, you have definitely lost your bet, so betting on a team to score first even though they are more stronger is actually not a good option in my own point of view, because this is football and as such, anything can happen.
But if I were to be betting on that game, I will be going with the option of Manchester city to win and over 2.5 or I will go win the option of second half over 1.5, and I believe that those options will definitely be more productive than Manchester city score first which is too risky.
Manchester City managed to win with two goal scored by their mainstay striker Haaland, but unfortunately for the first goal in this match it turned out to be scored first by Brentford thanks to goal from Yoane Wissa and this made my bet fail because the 1st goal option could not be as expected.
You are right that in football anything can happen but keep in mind that this is Manchester City match against team that is not so strong so there is belief that the chances for Manchester City to score the first goal in this match are also very large.
Moreover, Manchester City defense is very strong and no one thought that Brentford would be able to get 1 goal advantage at the start of the first half, but I quite happy with the result even though I had to lose the bet.
For the second half the game was much fiercer and Brentford had fairly strong defense, all of Manchester City attacking efforts in the second half also did not produce results, if in this match you take that option for the second half then it will also be failure.