Manchester City are favourites on paper only. I believe this could be a Champions League final with equal teams. I think it's very hard to guess who will be the winner here. If you look at the last few home league games, Manchester City look stronger. But this is the Champions League, which is different to other matches.
Manchester City is placed as the favorite because they will play at the Etihad stadium and Bayern Munich is in the process of adapting with a new coach. But the advantage of playing at home doesn't mean they can underestimate the strength that Bayern Munich has, Tuchel will try to improve his team's performance against one of the other favorite teams.
That's right, this is the Champions League, the atmosphere is very different from other competencies. It is difficult to predict the outcome of the match because both teams were able to win in their last match.
Yes, of course Manchester City will be a favorite in tonight's match. There are several factors that I think City will outperform Bayern. In addition to the host factor, Man.City is also in good performance, they always win in the last eight matches, four of them are even passed by Man.City by netting four goals or more to the opponent's goal. Thus the front lines of Manchester City are very terrible and will be a serious threat to the Bavarian defense.
While Bayern Munich is undergoing an adaptation process with his coach Tuchel. In the hands of the former Chelsea coach it was not yet fully consistent, this certainly made Bayern fans worried.
But for Pep Guardiola and Tuchel they have also met each other. At that time Tuchel managed to defeat Pep in the 2021 Champions League final with Chelsea. So thus, Pep is very ambitious to repay his defeat and try to get rid of Tuchel as soon as possible on the Champions League stage.