ATLANTA, GA- Manchester City have lost their last two pre-season friendlies on their tour of America, going down first to Sporting Lisbon 2-0 and in their last match losing 2-1 to Red Bull New York. However Roberto Mancini remains upbeat and is looking forward to putting out a strong team against Club América this afternoon. He is likely to include Yaya Toure, Gareth Barry and Shaun Wright-Phillips who have all been missing from the last two matches.
This is City’s penultimate friendly before the new season and Mancini will be hoping his team can find some form at just the right time. Despite the two latest disappointing results, Stan James make City favourites at evens (£10 profit from a £10 bet), whilst Club América have been given odds of 3/1 by Sky Bet. The blues should be strengthened considerably from their last outing out, but Club América will be no pushovers and a draw at 23/10 with Betfair is well worth a tipple. A goalless draw is worth 10/1 at Bet365, a fair price given the usually open nature of friendlies.
There are other decent odds on predicting the correct score at half-time with 2-1 to Man City at 18/1 with Bet365 and 1-0 to Club América at 9/2 with the same bookmakers. For full-time results Man City to win 3-0 is 16/1 with Coral, whilst 2-0 Club América is a cracking 16/1 with Victor Chandler. In other markets a sending off is priced at 7/1 with Betfair, and as a half-time/full-time result, draw/Man City is priced at 4/1 with Bet365.
As the new season approaches Manchester City are third favourites to win the premiership at 5/1 with Paddy Power, to come in the top three they are priced at 4/5 and to qualify for the Champions League Man City are 4/7 with Sky Bet. For a really wild punt it is 1/5 with Paddy Power for Roberto Mancini to wear a scarf on the first day of the season, or Sir Alex Ferguson to replace Mancini by the end of the season is at 500/1 with the same bookmaker.
Full Club América v Man City odds
Barclays Premier League 2010/2011 odds
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