Like you, I think Manchester City beat Copenhagen, especially with Kevin De Bruyne back. His skills improve greatly. I'm planning for the quarterfinals and beyond. City is strong but not invincible. They'll likely beat Copenhagen, but Real Madrid and Bayern Munich will be tougher. Those games will show if City can win it all. Football is unpredictable. It's not enough to have top players like De Bruyne; it's how they play together under pressure. That will decide if they can win Champions League again
Even without Kevin De Bruyne, the match against Copenhagen should still be an easy match for Manchester City because there is a difference in the quality of the two teams, although surprises may still occur when the favorite team performs badly because they slightly underestimate their opponent but on paper Manchester City's winning percentage is very big in the first match of this knockout round so that the quarter-finals will be theirs and City having Kevin De Bryune is a big advantage, that's why it is reported that the club has proposed a new contract for the player because there are reports that there are Arab clubs who are interested in him.
When Manchester City qualify for the quarter-finals, the match will be even more difficult because the team that advances to the quarter-finals will of course be a team that is more evenly strong and that will be enough to determine City's next steps whether they can qualify for the semifinals and final or will stop.
Manchester city was not comparable to the copenhagen. Even the secondar squad of city can beat it easily but pep shall not need to underestimate its opponent. The club needs to perform even better than before. Manchester city needs always to use its full power to beat any club in the UCL. This has become the main problem for city. City is now getting easiest route to go to the final of UCL. City can make it to win UCL two times in a row which will able to compete with real madrid for this.
De bruyne will increase the self confidence owned by manchester city and ti seems like that city is ready to get another UCL trophy again. Other club needs to worry with the comeback of some key players of manchester city.
It's caused by these players will become the main threats for any clubs in UCL. I think the club that will not get city as the next opponent will be lucky enough. City will be trying so hard to perform better.
The competition is still continue and it seems like that city will try to hard to strengthen the club. Im sure pep had been preparing a lot of plans for city.