Manchester City vs Bayern Munich UEFA Champions League Match Stats Preview
This will be the seventh meeting between Manchester City and Bayern Munich in European competition, with each both sides alternating victories across the previous six (three each) – all in the UEFA Champions League.
Manchester City have won two of the previous occasions when hosting Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League (L1), with their one defeat coming against Pep Guardiola’s Bayern in October 2013 (1-3).
Since losing four consecutive away games against English sides in the UEFA Champions League between 2005 and 2011, Bayern Munich have only lost on two of their 10 such trips since (W6 D2), and won three of the last four (D1).
Manchester City have won their last 10 home games against German sides in the UEFA Champions League by an aggregate score of 39-10, including all four games in this run during the knockout stages.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has won 54% of his games in the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League (39/72). Among those with 30+ games in the KO stages (including finals), he has the best win percentage of any manager and is the only one to have won more than half of his games.
This will be the fourth meeting between Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola and Bayern Munich’s Thomas Tuchel in a cup competition, with Tuchel winning two of the previous three. Across the three matches, Guardiola’s sides have failed to score a single goal, with his one triumph coming via a penalty shootout in the DFB-Pokal final in 2016.
Erling Haaland has scored 10 goals in six appearances for Manchester City in the UEFA Champions League - the joint-fewest games needed for a player to reach double figures in the competition for a specific club, along with Sébastien Haller for Ajax (6). Indeed, these are the only two instances quicker than Haaland reaching 10 goals in seven UEFA Champions League games for previous club Borussia Dortmund.
Leon Goretzka has been directly involved in more goals than any other Bayern Munich player in the UEFA Champions League this season (6 – two goals and four assists). Indeed, 50% of Goretzka’s combined goals and assists in the competition in his career have been registered this season (6/12), in what is his seventh UEFA Champions League campaign.
Manchester City’s Erling Haaland has scored five goals in seven career appearances against Bayern Munich (all for Borussia Dortmund), yet has ended on the losing side in all seven matches. Since joining Borussia Dortmund in December 2019, they are the only club side that Haaland has faced on more than two occasions in his club career without winning.
Thomas Müller has ended on the winning side on 99 of his 140 appearances in the UEFA Champions League. Should he feature in a victory for Bayern Munich here, he’d be the third player with 100 wins in the competition along with Cristiano Ronaldo (115) and Iker Casillas (101), and the first to do so with a single club.
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