Man City at Burton 1/23/19 - Carabao Cup Picks & Predictions

By: Paul |

Last Updated: 08/08/2019 at 1:21 PM ET

Manchester City did a spectacular job in the first leg of the Carabao Cup semi-finals against Burton last week, as they destroyed them by a huge 0-9 at home. The match-up is now reversed and Burton will play host to the Premier League giants on Wednesday, with literally no chances to make it through.

Burton did a great effort to reach all the way to the Carabao Cup semi-finals this season but this is where their journey comes to an end. In the first leg they quickly saw things get out of hand, as Manchester City were already leading by four goals by the 37th minute and eventually blasted them by a harsh 0-9. Burton have been in bad shape lately (1-2-3) and have won just two of their last five matches at home (2-1-2). Both teams scored in all five matches and four had at least Over 2.5 Goals.
Manchester City were simply perfect in the first leg and don’t need to worry at all about this match. They will surely use a lot of players who don’t get much screen time but even those players are much better than whatever Burton will field. Manchester City are in great shape right now and have won six in a row while keeping clean sheets in their last four. However, they have only kept a single clean sheet in their last seven away matches in all competitions and we could maybe see Burton score here.

Manchester City can certainly cover the spread here and the Under/Over is a little salty at this point. I wouldn’t be surprised if Burton scored at least once here and Manchester City’s youngsters will surely want to prove themselves worthy. I will reluctantly take the Over 3.75 Goals here.

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