Manchester City vs Olympiakos UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
This is the first ever European meeting between Manchester City and Olympiakos.
Manchester City’s only previous games against Greek opponents was in the Last 32 of the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League, when they won 3-0 on aggregate against Aris.
Olympiakos have lost 14 of their 16 away major UEFA European matches in England, though they have won two of their last four visits, both against Arsenal in September 2015 and February 2020.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola won his two previous UEFA Champions League matches against Olympiakos, winning 3-0 away and 4-0 at home as Bayern Munich manager in the 2015/16 group stages.
Only Barcelona (39) and FC Porto (33) have conceded more away UEFA Champions League goals in England than Olympiakos (29), whose ratio of 2.9 goals conceded per visit (10 in total) is the highest of the 10 teams to have played 10+ away games in England.
Manchester City are unbeaten in their last 13 games in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League (W10 D3), winning five of the six games at the Etihad Stadium in this run (D1).
Manchester City winger Ferran Torres is looking to become the third-youngest player in UEFA Champions League history to score in four consecutive appearances (20y 248d), behind only Kylian Mbappé (18y 120d) and Erling Haaland (19y 107d).
Mathieu Valbuena has been directly involved in 50% of Olympiakos’ shots in the UEFA Champions League this season (11/22), having created seven chances and taken four shots himself.
Since the start of the 2017-18 season, only Kylian Mbappé (15) has made more assists than Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne (12) in the UEFA Champions League.
Olympiakos goalkeeper José Sá has only kept two clean sheets 13 appearances in the UEFA Champions League, while both of those came in home games for the Greek side at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium.
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