Champions League tips: Manchester City vs PSG predictions, best bets & preview

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1pt Draw and both teams to score at 7/2 (Betfair, BetVictor)

0.5pt Gianluigi Donnarumma to be shown a card at 9/1 (Coral, Ladbrokes)

The Petrostate Derby? Is that what we're calling it?

In the same way it would have been difficult to schedule a better Super Sunday for the first round of matches after Manchester City were found guilty of the majority of the charges brought against them by the Premier League, UEFA's fixture computer has thrown us a doozy.

While Abu Dhabi United and Man City face the very real prospect of this being potentially their last Champions League campaign for quite some time, Qatar Sports Investments and Paris Saint-Germain arrive at The Etihad at the peak of their powers as reigning two-time European champions.

Just to keep things even more low key, friend to Arab states Pep Guardiola, a long-time Qatar ambassador, will attend his first City game since ending his now tainted 10-year spell as manager in the summer.

PSG may have lifted the trophy in each of the last two seasons but they have been notoriously slow starters. On neither occasion did Luis Enrique's men finish in the top eight in the league phase, meaning they had to play an extra play-off round to make it into the round of 16.

Remarkably two years ago they only scraped into the knockout stage by winning their final three group matches after losing three of their first five.

They did improve on that 15th-placed finish last term, not just by finishing 11th but by starting a little faster to impressively win their first three games – thrashing Atlanta 4-0 at home and Bayer Leverkusen 7-2 away either side of an impressive 2-1 win at Barcelona.

While they were thrown an easy opener this season they made no mistake, beating Slovan Bratislava 6-1.

They now head to a Manchester City team whose on-pitch fortunes could not be more contrasting with what is transpiring off it.

Enzo Maresca's side thumped Liverpool 3-0 at Anfield on Sunday to record an eighth straight win.

There was quite the outpouring from City's players at the final whistle, a siege mentality reaction that is surely more emotionally draining than a straightforward victory would be.

Raising themselves to face the two-times reigning Champions League winners three days later is quite an ask.

PSG look too big TO WIN at 2/1 but given this is a group-stage fixture my preference is to cover the DOUBLE CHANCE and BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE.

WIN & BTTS and DRAW & BTTS are both 7/2. Backed separately we get far better value and the prices are available with multiple firms. Backed as WIN-DRAW the general price is 6/5.

PSG have kept just one clean sheet in nine matches this season, and scored in eight. City may have kept their opponents out in five of their nine fixtures in all competitions, but they have shown plenty of vulnerability, best demonstrated in a 5-3 home win over Sunderland when the visitors created chances equating to 3.57 expected goals (xG).

Guardiola's attendance will take most of the focus but there are several other reunions on the pitch, most notably GIANLUIGI DONNARUMMA.

The goalkeeper left PSG for Man City just over a year ago and has continued his remarkable, unrivalled record when it comes to CARDS.

He was booked 10 times in just 43 appearances for City in his debut season at the club. There is rarely any strategy to it with the Italian, he simply gets involved in things he ought not to.

This term he has already gone in the book twice in 12 matches for club and country and at 9/1 TO BE SHOWN A CARD against his old club he is worth a small bet.

The PSG players will know exactly how to get under the giant keeper's skin and it won't have escaped their attention that he got himself involved in a row with Liverpool fans in the aftermath of Sunday's win, the kind of situation that will not be disappearing any time soo.

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