By February the knock out stage for the UCL will kick off and for some teams, it'll be an easy slide through regardless of the notion of the strongest teams being the ones able to scale into this stage. City and Copenhagen would go against each other and it's very much clear that City would be the survivors. No offense to Copenhagen fans buy if you compare both sides you'll see that City stand and better chance and even got better squad and tactics.
Their key men are back and set to run and definitely that's enough charge to weigh down Copenhagen. Yes, in their home ground, they may try to put up a battle but I'm certain that City will be capable to overturn them. They're way ahead of them in capacity and ability too. As always, the round of 16 will have as much fun as there can be in it and it's greatly anticipated. Preparations and games would definitely be intense too.
And there is still quite lot of time left for each team to prepare for the match, it is clear that if they lose in two legs of the match they will be eliminated from the UCL competition.
In the Manchester City vs Copenhagen match, it is clear that Manchester City will be the favorite and in the first and second leg matches, Manchester City will definitely have the advantage.
Even though the first leg will be home match for Copenhagen, I sure that Manchester City can still win it and for the second leg of course Manchester City will have another big victory because they have home match.
With the return of the main players, Pep can use the perfect composition of players like he helped Manchester City win three competitions last season.
For the Premier League itself, Newcastle is still not great opponent for Manchester City and of course all conveniences can be obtained when very perfect squad is well structured.
I believe that everyone will try to do their very best and there won't be any issues at all, people think way too much of this knock off stage but there aren't that many close games if you ask me. I think most of the games will be won by the favorites, and considering most of the games are like 2.00 or lower odds for the favorites, it's clear to say unless there is some shock happening, I believe that it is going to be a tough situation for the underdogs.
Teams can get ready as much as they want, we all know that nothing major will change and we are going to end up with a result that should be obvious even from now, so all that time that is given to them in order to get ready will not mean anything, I bet that even if all the games were today, they would still get pretty much the same result.