Manchester United vs Bayern Munich UCL Prediction & Picks: United Face European Elimination at Home

After another frustrating performance in a season full of them, Manchester United return to Champions League action for perhaps the final time this season, as Harry Kane and Bayern Munich visit Old Trafford looking to put their own shocking Saturday behind them.

After producing perhaps their most impressive performance of the season in a victory over Chelsea last Wednesday, United laid a massive egg against Bournemouth on Saturday in a humbling, humiliating 3-0 defeat.

It was their seventh Premier League defeat in 16 matches this season, and it was yet another mystifying showing by the Red Devils, who have made a practice of being consistently inconsistent this season.

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That is why they are only sixth in the Premier League table, eliminated from the EFL Cup, and on the verge of heading out of European competition altogether.

In Champions League action, Manchester United have led in four of five matches, but they have only one win and one draw to show for it through five matches.

As a result, they dwell in the Group A cellar ahead of today's group finale, needing a win and a draw in the FC Copenhagen-Galatasaray match to advance to the round of 16. To even manage to drop down to the Europa League, United need to avoid defeat to Bayern and get the right result from Copenhagen.

Bayern have already locked up top spot in the group with four wins and a draw, but after a stunning 5-1 defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday, the six-time European champions might be out for blood tonight at Old Trafford.

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Moneyline

• Manchester United +185
• Bayern Munich +125
• Draw +315

Over/Under

• Over 3.25 (-112)
• Under 3.25 (-108)

Spread

• Manchester United +0.25 (-116)
• Bayern Munich -0.25 (-104)

Manchester United vs Bayern Munich Prediction and Picks

Prediction: Manchester United to win

Picks: Manchester United ML (+185 at BetOnline) & Manchester United team total over 1.5 goals (+105 at BetOnline)

Nothing encapsulates the current state of Manchester United by these two factoids:

1) Arsenal (15), Atletico Madrid (15), Manchester City (15), and Real Madrid (13) are the only teams who have scored more goals in the group stage than United, and 2) Celtic (14) and Royal Antwerp (15) are the only two teams who have surrendered as many or more goals in the group stage.

Arsenal, City, and Real have already been confirmed as winners of their respective groups, while Atletico will do so if they avoid defeat to Lazio tomorrow. On the other end of the spectrum, Celtic and Antwerp have one point combined and are certain to finish last in their respective groups.

If a team scores two or more goals four times out of five matches, you would expect them to win at least two or three of those matches, right?

Alas, United's only win to this point is a 1-0 home win over FC Copenhagen a month and a half ago.

UEFA Champions League Group A Standings

1. Bayern Munich – 13 points
2. FC Copenhagen – 5 points
3. Galatasaray – 5 points
4. Manchester United – 4 points

This isn't the space to go in-depth about why things are as they are, but as it all pertains to tonight, what should we expect to see in Manchester?

Well, to put it simply, who knows? Bayern had a poor week last week, with a goalless home draw against FC Copenhagen followed by falling flat in Frankfurt, where the hosts tallied their five goals inside 60 minutes to produce a scoreline you will not frequently see Bayern be on the wrong end of.

Bayern have not lost consecutive competitive matches in just over four years, since dropping back-to-back Bundesliga matches to Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Monchengladbach to close November and open December in 2019.

So, it's only reasonable to expect a strong response to Saturday's defeat.

Can Manchester United match that performance to do their part to make the unlikely happen? Logically, there's little reason to trust them to do so. But given how weird and wacky and illogical their season has been to this point, picking them to win is really the only move here, isn't it?

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