UEFA Champions League Prediction: Manchester City – Dortmund Borussia (05-11-2025)

The fight for the top 8 in the Champions League is getting heated as Manchester City takes on Borussia Dortmund. Both sides dropped only one point so far and will be looking to strengthen their position to automatically qualify for the quarter finals.

Surprisingly, Manchester City is currently averaging 2 goals per game, which is the lowest among the top teams. The Citizens began the Champions League campaign with a firm 2-0 at home against Napoli, but dropped their first points versus Monaco away, 2-2.

Pep Guardiola’s return to Spain was successful as his men beat Villarreal 2-0 in the latest round, which guaranteed the 7th place in the rankings.

After a slow start in the Premier League, Manchester City were finally able to get back on track and put up a decent winning streak. However, the train got derailed in the latest fixture in Birmingham, where the Citizens suffered their third defeat of the season.

Obviously, at this early stage, nothing is lost yet for the team as Manchester City are 5th at the moment, which is far away from a tragedy, especially knowing their long injury history.

For this fixture, City will still miss Khusanov and Rodri’s services, but Erling Haaland’s form did not decline as the Norwegian is the Premier League top-scorer and already has 4 goals in the Champions League.

Borussia was always a team to deliver in the Champions League and this year is no exception. The Germans opened the European season with a TV Series worth a 4-4 draw against Juventus.

In the next 2 relatively easier fixtures, Dortmund again fired 4 goals past Athletic Bilbao and Copenhagen, and now is the joint second-highest scoring club after 3 rounds.

From the start of the 2024/25 season, they went on 9 9-game unbeaten streak, which was cut short by their biggest rivals for the title, Bayern Munich. Harry Kane and co. earned a hard-fought victory 2-1, but since then Dortmund has regained a three-game winning streak.

With Ryan Cherki and Omar Marmoush back in the picture, E.Haaland now has even more help upfront; therefore, we can expect the Citizens to score more goals in the upcoming matchups. 

Dortmund kept their identity with an attacking football-minded game, so our pick at bookmakers’ sites for this game is – both teams to score.