I agree with you. Copenhagen has already proved their mettle. And after watching Copenhagen's performance against Bayern Munich, I feel there is no way to underestimate this team. This team has the ability to be confident and perform well against bigger teams.
Manchester City's performance is still a bit shaky. Due to their weak midfield, the team is not getting the expected performance from Haaland in attack. So the Copenhagen vs Manchester City match is likely to be competitive. However, if Haaland and De Bruyne play well, it will be a little easier for Manchester City to dominate the match.
Despite Manchester City's dismal performance, I don't believe Copenhagen will have a chance to triumph over them. Because they want to return with their best effort and win the game, Manchester City is now ready for the encounter. They will provide a remedy to Copenhagen Man City only have problem with midfield. Other than that, I have no doubts about their ability to perform effectively throughout the game.
Exactly, Manchester City is not an appropriate opponent for Copenhagen especially now that Manchester City will played with a full squad because Kevin de Bruyne has recovered from injury so we will see a different game from Manchester City or we can call it Real Manchester City and I will say it's an easy win for Manchester City. This match will be played in February and there are still many moments to be passed but if Manchester City plays with the main squad then it doesn't have a way for Copenhagen to get points/win.
That said that there were no guarantees for de bruyne and haaloand to play against headdersfield. Things can change anytime depending on the how good or bad the conditions of those players. In fact, de bruyne has been trying so hard to recover from his injury. Those players need to get approval from their doctors first. I really miss seeing de bruyne and haaland to play together but manchester city is also looking for his replacement for the future.
City is now targeting loriant wirtz to be a successor for de bruyne in the future. I hope that pep's plan will be going so well. It's caused by he will play a very important role to build the future squad before pep is going to leave from the club in the future. I hope that the story of alex ferguson with manchester united will not repeat in city. Pep needs to prepare a long-term plan for manchester city.
The regeneration has always become the main problem owned by manchester city. The club needs to prepare this and this is pretty much the same when the club has been transition from tevez's era.