Man City risk nightmare Champions League scenario after heavy Sporting defeat

Manchester City have been predicted to be at risk of facing Real Madrid in a two-legged play-off in the Champions League following their heavy defeat to Sporting on Tuesday night.

The Blues have hit a ropey run of form with three straight losses in all competitions with their most concerning defeat coming in midweek against the incoming Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim's side. City started the brighter and were in the lead inside five minutes through Phil Foden.

But once Viktor Gyokeres equalised late in the first half, the tide had turned. Maximiliano Araujo put the hosts into the lead almost immediately in the second 45 minutes before two Gyokeres penalties sealed his hat-trick and a 4-1 win for the Lisbon club.

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The defeat leaves City 10th in the Champions League with clashes against Feyenoord, Juventus, PSG and Club Brugge still to come. In CSDB.gg's latest Supercomputer which predicts outcomes on a team's results and betting odds, City are anticipated to finish as low as 13th in the Champions League.

This would leave them as a seeded team for the knockout play-offs which is a silver lining considering seeded teams will have the advantage of playing the second leg at home. However, the Supercomputer also predicts that Real Madrid will finish 17th which means City would have the chance of drawing them in the play-offs and while Carlo Ancelotti's side are in bad form, they have a habit of coming good, especially in Europe.

Take a look at the full predicted Champions League table after Matchday Four below.

Champions League top eight

1) Liverpool - 22pts

2) Borussia Dortmund - 19pts

3) Inter Milan - 19pts

4) Atalanta - 17pts

5) Sporting - 17pts

6) Bayer Leverkusen - 17pts

7) Bayern Munich - 16pts

8) AS Monaco - 16pts

Champions League knockout play-offs seeded

9) Atletico Madrid - 16pts

10) Barcelona - 15pts

11) Juventus - 15pts

12) AC Milan - 15pts

13) Manchester City - 14pts

14) Lille - 14pts

15) PSV Eindhoven - 13pts

16) Arsenal - 13pts

Champions League knockout play-offs unseeded

17) Real Madrid - 13pts

18) Aston Villa - 12pts

19) Girona - 12pts

20) Stuttgart - 12pts

21) Brest - 11pts

22) Celtic - 11pts

23) Feyenoord - 11pts

24) Benfica - 10pts

Eliminated from Champions League

25) RB Leipzig - 9pts

26) Club Brugge - 9pts

27) PSG - 8pts

28) Shakhtar Donetsk - 7pts

29) Dinamo Zagreb - 7pts

30) Young Boys - 6pts

31) Sparta Prague - 4pts

32) RB Salzburg - 3pts

33) Bologna - 2pts

34) Crvena Zvezda - 2pts

35) Sturm Graz - 1pts

36) Slovan Bratislava - 0pts