Is obvious that manchester city is the favorite team to win this match, because manchester united have not been consistant with thier performance for some time now, more especially in premier league. though manchester city in the other side is not that good as well, but regardless to thier inconsistency. I think their performance is way more better than that of manchester united, and even when manchester united is form The bookmakers always predict the odd in the favour of manchester city because they knew that the possibility for manchester united to win manchester city is very slim.
Yeah, Manchester City might be the favourite to win in the tie but don't get your hopes high and be too quick to think it will be so, it might actually go the other way round. Remember the last two times they met, the first was the final of the FA cup were almost all punters picked Manchester City to win the cup but we're all in for a shocker as it was Manchester United that lifted the trophy after beating the favourites. Again in the first leg of this season, we all thought Manchester City was going to disassemble Man Utd especially after they scored first but Manchester United came from behind to City by 2 goals to 1. Yeah, I know anything can happen that's why I'm not writing off Manchester United in this tie.
Manchester City is clearly favorite for this derby due to their quality and players performance even they are missing Haaland but still things are well under their control which is giving them good advantage in this game.
Manchester United is facing inconsistency which is the biggest issue in last few years despite having many good players their depth has never been good, and their attack is also always fail to score goals but in this derby they needed to manage better results because this can give them good confidence for their next game against Lyon which is important for them.
In this round many surprising results are coming which are clearly indicating all teams are performing good, and they are giving their best for having good result Manchester United is losing their support from fans as well, but they are still capable of fighting back.