Manchester City vs Lyon UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 🔥
This will be the third UEFA Champions League meeting between Manchester City and Lyon; no side
have the Citizens faced on more occasions in the competition without a victory than Lyon (P2 WO D1
L1).
Manchester City have reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League for a fourth time in the last five seasons (the only exception being 2016-17); however, they have only progressed from one of their previous three quarter-final appearances, knocking out PSG in 2015-16.
This will be Lyon's first appearance in the quarter finals of the UEFA Champions League since 2009-10. The French side have progressed from just one of their four Champions League quarter-final ties eliminating Bordeaux in 2009-10.
Should Manchester City progress, there will be an English representative in the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League for a third consecutive season, the longest such run since between 2003-04 2008-09 (six successive campaigns).
Having failed to win any of their first six UEFA Champions League games against English sides (D3 L3), Lyon remain unbeaten in their last four against such opposition (W2 D2), including a win and a draw against Man City in last season's group stages.
Manchester City have lost just one of their last 17 UEFA Champions League games (W13 D3), however that defeat did come in last season's quarter finals against Tottenham (P9 W7 D2 LO since).
Since progressing from his first seven UEFA Champions League quarter-finals with Barcelona and FC Bayern München - Pep Guardiola has been eliminated in each of his two appearances at this
stage of the competition with Man City (17-18 & 18-19). The Spaniard will be aiming to reach his
eighth semi-final which would be a joint record for a manager in the competition alongside José
Mourinho.
Lyon's Memphis Depay has scored in six successive UEFA Champions League games Ruud van
Nistelrooy is the only Dutch player to go on a longer scoring streak in the competition's history (a run of nine in the 2002-03 campaign)
Gabriel Jesus has been directly involved in more UEFA Champions League goals for Manchester City
this season than any other player (9- 6 goals & 3 assists). A goal in this game would see the Brazilian
become just the third player to score in three separate Champions League knockout matches in a single campaign for the Citizens after Sergio Agüero and Raheem Sterling (both in 2018/19).
Last time out against Real Madrid, Raheem Sterling scored his 20th UEFA Champions League goal for Man City, becoming just the sixth Englishman to reach this tally in the competition. He has never ended on the losing side in a Champions League game when he has scored (W14 D2) - only six players have scored in more games without losing any of them in the competition's history (Patrick Kluivert holding the record - P25 W23 D2 L0 in games scored in).
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