The chance for Manchester City to pass this stage is pretty much high and there is nearly zero chance to say Pep Guardiola and his players fail this group but the problem with Manchester City is they were not in the good form like the last season and you could see that when they were playing against Arsenal in Premier League, I think the best Manchester City can do is to start finding a weakness to be the favorite for this Champions League again.
Manchester city has been in consistent form in the champions league, they won all the teams in their group. Despite losing two matches in the premier league they are still in a favorable position and losing to Arsenal is not a prerequisite to see them as not being inform compared to last season and moreover, the leagues are still young so no teams performance can be judged a this early stage of the competition.
Looking at Manchester city, they've suffered some injuries and it isn't easy for them to play without a key player, let's take for example Kelvin bruyne is expected to be out of play for the rest of the year you can see that his injury is a very big setback to City because of his vital role in the midfield so losing such an important player to injury is a huge blow to Manchester city considering the fact that they still have lots of competitive matches ahead just hope they would be able to cope without him