Bayern vs Man City facts

Manchester City are within touching distance of a third successive UEFA Champions League semi-final as they travel to Germany for the second leg of their quarter-final against six-time champions Bayern München holding a three-goal advantage.

City manager Josep Guardiola oversaw an emphatic 3-0 win against his former club – who he guided to three Bundesliga titles and three UEFA Champions League semi-finals between 2013 and 2016 – in what was the first knockout meeting between the clubs. Rodri's spectacular long-range effort (27) – his first UEFA Champions League goal – was supplemented in the final 20 minutes by Bernardo Silva (70) and Erling Haaland (76) as Bayern conceded more goals in 90 minutes than in their first eight matches of this season's competition combined.

Bayern, who on 24 March replaced Julian Nagelsmann with Thomas Tuchel – coach of Chelsea when they beat City in the 2021 final – will need to mount a remarkable comeback to reach the semi-finals for the first time since 2019/20, when they claimed their sixth European Cup. City have made the last four in each of the last two seasons, although they suffered three successive quarter-final exits under Guardiola before that.

The sides reached the last eight in contrasting fashion, Bayern coming through a heavyweight round of 16 contest against Paris Saint-Germain while City eliminated German opposition at the same stage, a 7-0 second-leg victory at home to Leipzig equalling their biggest win in UEFA competition. The first-leg win against Bayern was also City's biggest in a European quarter-final match.

This is the only one of this season's UEFA Champions League quarter-finals between reigning domestic champions.

The winners of this tie will face Real Madrid or Chelsea in the semi-final.

Previous meetings

This is the sides' eighth meeting, with City now having four victories to Bayern's three and scoring 12 goals to their opponents' ten. The first six of those contests came in the UEFA Champions League group stage between September 2011 and November 2014.

Each side recorded a 2-0 home victory in 2011/12, Mario Gomez's first-half double (38, 45+1) giving Jupp Heynckes' Bayern a Matchday 2 win in Munich before David Silva (36) and Yaya Touré (52) earned City the points in Manchester on Matchday 6. Bayern finished top of Group A on 13 points, with Roberto Mancini's City eliminated having finished third on ten.

The roles were reversed in 2013/14, by which time Guardiola was in charge of Bayern, each game finishing in an away win. Franck Ribéry (7), Thomas Müller (56) and Arjen Robben (59) scored in Bayern's 3-1 victory in Manchester on Matchday 2, Álvaro Negredo's 79th-minute strike City's only response.

Müller (5) and Mario Götze (12) gave Bayern an early two-goal cushion in Munich on Matchday 6, but David Silva (28) and Aleksandar Kolarov (59pen) brought City level before James Milner's 62nd-minute winner. Bayern still finished top of Group D ahead of Manuel Pellegrini's City on head-to-head record after each side had collected 15 points.

Both teams also progressed in 2014/15, although Guardiola's Bayern finished on 15 points, seven above Pellegrini's City in Group E. They kicked off with a 1-0 win against their English opponents in Munich, former City defender Jérôme Boateng scoring a 90th-minute winner. The tables were turned in Manchester on Matchday 5, Sergio Agüero's added-time goal completing his hat-trick (22, 85, 90+1) and snatching a 3-2 victory; Xabi Alonso (40) and Robert Lewandowski (45) were on target for Bayern.

Form guide

Bayern

Bayern's European Cup quarter-final record is W20 L12:
2021/22 Villarreal L 1-2 (0-1 a, 1-1 h)
2020/21 Paris Saint-Germain L 3-3 away goals (2-3 h, 1-0 a)
2019/20 Barcelona W 8-2 (n)
2017/18 Sevilla W 2-1 (2-1 a, 0-0 h)
2016/17 Real Madrid L 3-6 (1-2 h, 2-4 a aet)
2015/16 Benfica W 3-2 (1-0 h, 2-2 a)
2014/15 Porto W 7-4 (1-3 a, 6-1 h)
2013/14 Manchester United W 4-2 (1-1 a, 3-1 h)
2012/13 Juventus W 4-0 (2-0 h, 2-0 a)
2011/12 Marseille W 4-0 (2-0 a, 2-0 h)
2009/10 Manchester United W 4-4 away goals (2-1 h, 2-3 a)
2008/09 Barcelona L 1-5 (0-4 a, 1-1 h)
2006/07 AC Milan L 2-4 (2-2 a, 0-2 h)
2004/05 Chelsea L 5-6 (2-4 a, 3-2 h)
2001/02 Real Madrid L 2-3 (2-1 h, 0-2 a)
2000/01 Manchester United W 3-1 (1-0 a, 2-1 h)
1999/00 Porto W 3-2 (1-1 a, 2-1 h)
1998/99 Kaiserslautern W 6-0 (2-0 h, 4-0 a)
1997/98 Borussia Dortmund L 0-1 (0-0 h, 0-1 a)
1994/95 IFK Göteborg W 2-2 away goals (0-0 h, 2-2 a)
1990/91 Porto W 3-1 (1-1 h, 2-0 a)
1989/90 PSV Eindhoven W 3-1 (2-1 h, 1-0 a)
1987/88 Real Madrid L 3-4 (3-2 h, 0-2 a)
1986/87 Anderlecht W 7-2 (5-0 h, 2-2 a)
1985/86 Anderlecht L 2-3 (2-1 h, 0-2 a)
1981/82 Universitatea Craiova W 3-1 (2-0 a, 1-1 h)
1980/81 Baník Ostrava W 6-2 (2-0 h, 4-2 a)
1976/77 Dynamo Kyiv L 1-2 (1-0 h, 0-2 a)
1975/76 Benfica W 5-1 (0-0 a, 5-1 h)
1974/75 Ararat Yerevan W 2-1 (2-0 h, 0-1 a)
1973/74 CSKA Sofia W 5-3 (4-1 h, 1-2 a)
1972/73 Ajax L 2-5 (0-4 a, 2-1 h)

This is Bayern's 21st appearance in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals – a competition record, two more than Real Madrid.

Bayern have lost more European Cup quarter-finals than any other club, the 12 defeats including the last two.

Bayern are in the UEFA Champions League proper for the 26th time, one behind joint record holders Real Madrid and Barcelona, and the 15th season in a row.

The Munich club, who claimed the last of their six European Cups in 2020, have won their group in each of the last five seasons and 19 times overall, two short of Barcelona's competition record; they have featured in the knockout rounds every season since 2007/08, when they were in the UEFA Cup, and have not failed to progress beyond the initial group stage since 2002/03.

In 2021/22 Bayern won all six group games for the second time to finish first in Group E ahead of Benfica, Barcelona and Dynamo Kyiv. They then eased past Salzburg in the round of 16 (1-1 a, 7-1 h) but, for the second year running, were eliminated in the quarter-finals, going out to Villarreal (0-1 a, 1-1 h).

Bayern have not failed to reach the UEFA Champions League semi-finals three seasons running since 2008/09.

Nagelsmann's team claimed the Bundesliga title in 2021/22, Bayern's record-extending tenth successive league championship and 32nd overall.

Bayern kicked off this season with a 2-0 win at Inter Milan on Matchday 1, completing another perfect group stage campaign – for the third time in four seasons – with victory against the Nerazzurri in Munich by the same scoreline. They also beat Barcelona 2-0 at home and 3-0 away and Viktoria Plzeň 5-0 at home and 4-2 away.

Paris were overcome in the round of 16, Bayern winning 1-0 in France with a Kingsley Coman strike and 2-0 in Germany thanks to second-half goals from Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting and substitute Serge Gnabry.

A 3-2 loss to Paris in the 2020/21 round of 16 first leg ended Bayern's run of eight successive home UEFA Champions League victories and is one of only two of their last 18 matches in the competition in Munich they have not won, the other last season's draw against Villarreal. They have yet to concede at home in this European campaign.

This is Bayern's first tie with English opponents since a 7-1 aggregate win against Chelsea in the round of 16 of their victorious 2019/20 UEFA Champions League campaign (3-0 a, 4-1 h).

That was Bayern's sixth win in their last seven two-legged ties against English clubs; their overall record is W11 L6. A 3-1 aggregate loss to Liverpool in the 2018/19 round of 16 (0-0 a, 1-3 h) is their sole defeat since losing to Chelsea in the 2004/05 quarter-finals (2-4 a, 3-2 h).

That 2019 defeat by Liverpool ended Bayern's four-match winning run at home to Premier League clubs. Prior to that they had not prevailed in four matches in Bavaria, including the 2012 final defeat on penalties by Chelsea.

Bayern have recovered from an away first-leg defeat to win the tie on ten occasions in UEFA competition but have suffered 14 defeats, including 11 in the last 14 contests, most recently against Villarreal last season.

Bayern have retrieved a deficit of two goals or more only once in UEFA competition, against Porto in the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals (1-3 a, 6-1 h). They were eliminated by Barcelona in the next round (0-3 a, 3-2 h), only the second time they had lost the away first leg 3-0; the German club lost the previous tie as well, although they did win the second leg, against Valencia in the 1996/97 UEFA Cup first round (1-0 h).

Bayern's record in six UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W5 L1:
4-3 v Åtvidaberg, 1973/74 European Cup first round
9-8 v PAOK, 1983/84 UEFA Cup second round
5-4 v Valencia, 2000/01 UEFA Champions League final
3-1 v Real Madrid, 2011/12 UEFA Champions League semi-final
3-4 v Chelsea, 2011/12 UEFA Champions League final
5-4 v Chelsea, 2013 UEFA Super Cup

Man City

City's record in European Cup quarter-finals is W3 L3:
2021/22 Atlético de Madrid W 1-0 (1-0 h, 0-0 a)
2020/21 Borussia Dortmund W 4-2 (2-1 h, 2-1 a)
2019/20 Lyon L 1-3 (n)
2018/19 Tottenham L 4-4 away goals (0-1 a, 4-3 h)
2017/18 Liverpool L 1-5 (0-3 a, 1-2 h)
2015/16 Paris Saint-Germain W 3-2 (2-2 a, 1-0 h)

This is City's 12th UEFA Champions League campaign, all in succession; they have featured every season from 2011/12 onwards.

Including this season, the Manchester club's last ten campaigns have all stretched into the knockout rounds, their best performance coming in 2020/21 when they reached a first European Cup final only to lose 1-0 to fellow English side Chelsea, under new Bayern boss Tuchel, in Porto.

In 2021/22, City finished first in Group A on 12 points, one ahead of Paris, having won four of their six games. They then beat Sporting CP (5-0 a, 0-0 h) and Atlético de Madrid (1-0 h, 0-0 a) but were eliminated by eventual champions Real Madrid in the semi-finals (4-3 h, 1-3 a aet).

This season the Manchester club scored 11 goals in winning their first three games, sealing qualification with a goalless draw at Copenhagen on Matchday 4. They were also held 0-0 at Borussia Dortmund in their next fixture before a 3-1 home victory against Sevilla.

Guardiola's side have now finished first in their UEFA Champions League group for six successive seasons.

City drew 1-1 at Leipzig in the round of 16 first leg before that 7-0 home win in the return, in which Erling Haaland scored five goals – only the third player to do so in the UEFA Champions League.

Haaland's first-leg strike against Bayern was his 11th goal in this season's UEFA Champions League, cementing his place as the competition's leading scorer.

With 25 goals City were level with Napoli as the 2022/23 competition's joint top-scoring team after the quarter-final first legs.

The win against Leipzig was City's joint biggest European victory, the other also coming at home to German visitors in the round of 16 second leg, against Schalke in 2018/19. They have now won their last 11 home games against Bundesliga sides, ten in Manchester.

City won their fourth Premier League title in five seasons in 2021/22, the club's eighth league title overall – and sixth since 2011/12.

The first leg of this tie made it 25 home European matches unbeaten for City (W23 D2) since a 2-1 loss to Lyon on Matchday 1 in 2018/19, winning 17 of the last 18 with the exception of last season's draw against Sporting. That 25-match run without a home defeat is a new English club record in the UEFA Champions League, overtaking Arsenal's 24-game sequence from September 2004 to April 2009.

The Cityzens have won 15 of their last 27 away European matches (D7 L5).

This season City beat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 on Matchday 2 before a 0-0 away draw on Matchday 5.

City's 14-match unbeaten run against German clubs – with 13 victories – was ended by a 2-1 loss in Leipzig on Matchday 6 last season. It was their first defeat by a Bundesliga club since the 1-0 reverse at Bayern in September 2014.

The Manchester club lost six of their first eight away games against German clubs (W2) but have been beaten in only one of the last nine (W5 D3), winning four in a row before losing in Leipzig last season.

This season's elimination of Leipzig made City's record in two-legged ties against German clubs W5 L2 with victories in the last four – all in the UEFA Champions League. They have never lost a knockout tie in this competition to German opponents. The last Bundesliga club to defeat them over two legs were Hamburg in the quarter-finals of the 2008/09 UEFA Cup (1-3 a, 2-1 h).

Bayern are the fifth different German club to have faced City in a UEFA Champions League knockout tie. They have previously eliminated Borussia Mönchengladbach, Schalke, Dortmund and Leipzig.

Last season's semi-final was City's third aggregate loss in the ten UEFA competition ties in which they had won the home first leg. Their other two defeats came against Juventus in the 1976/77 UEFA Cup first round (1-0 h, 0-2 a) and on away goals against Monaco in the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League round of 16 (5-3 h, 1-3 a). This is the first time they have won the home first leg 3-0.

City's record in two UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W2 L0:
4-2 v Midtjylland, 2008/09 UEFA Cup second qualifying round
4-3 v Aalborg, 2008/09 UEFA Cup round of 16

Links and trivia

Guardiola was Bayern coach between 2013 and 2016, winning the Bundesliga in all three of his seasons in charge. He also added the DFB-Pokal in 2013/14 and 2015/16, and claimed the UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup in 2013.

Guardiola's players at Bayern included Manuel Neuer, Thomas Müller and, from 2015, Joshua Kimmich, Kingsley Coman and Sven Ulreich.

Guardiola was in charge of the Barcelona side that eliminated Bayern in the 2008/09 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals (4-0 h, 1-1 a).

Tuchel oversaw three wins against Guardiola's City as Chelsea head coach in 2020/21, most significantly in the UEFA Champions League final on 29 May; three weeks earlier, Chelsea had won 2-1 at the City of Manchester Stadium in the Premier League, delaying City's title celebrations. Tuchel also guided the Blues to a 1-0 FA Cup semi-final success against City on 17 April 2021, although Chelsea lost 1-0 home and away to Guardiola's team in the 2021/22 Premier League.

Tuchel had never beaten Guardiola as a coach before taking charge of Chelsea. His record against the Spaniard with Mainz and Dortmund was D2 L3 with two goals scored and 11 conceded. The previous meeting before 2021 came in the 2015/16 German Cup final, Bayern winning on penalties after a goalless draw in what was Guardiola's last match in charge prior to taking over at City.

João Cancelo joined Bayern on loan from City in January having scored nine goals in 154 appearances for the Manchester club since signing in 2019. He won Premier League titles in 2020/21 and 2021/22 and the English League Cup in the former campaign, when he also helped City reach their first UEFA Champions League final.

Leroy Sané also swapped City for Bayern, moving to Munich in 2020 after four years in Manchester under Guardiola. The winger won two Premier League titles, two League Cups and the FA Cup while in England, including all three in 2018/19 as City became the first club to win all three English domestic trophies in the same season.

Have also played in England:
Jamal Musiala (Southampton youth 2010–11, Chelsea youth 2011–19)
Sadio Mané (Southampton 2014–16, Liverpool 2016–22)
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (Stoke City 2017–18)
Serge Gnabry (Arsenal 2011–16, West Brom 2015/16 loan)
Daley Blind (Manchester United 2014–18)

Mané's record against City with Liverpool was W6 D5 L4. He scored seven goals, including the third in a 3-0 victory at Anfield in the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg and two in a 3-2 win in last season's FA Cup semi-final.

Have played in Germany:
Manuel Akanji (Borussia Dortmund 2018–22)
Sergio Gómez (Borussia Dortmund 2018–21)
İlkay Gündoğan (Nürnberg 2009–11, Borussia Dortmund 2011–16)
Kevin De Bruyne (Werder Bremen 2012/13 loan, Wolfsburg 2014–15)
Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund 2020–22)
Stefan Ortega (Arminia Bielefeld 2007–14, 2017–22, 1860 München 2014–17)

Gündoğan scored Dortmund's goal from the penalty spot in a 2-1 defeat by Bayern in the 2013 UEFA Champions League final at Wembley; Neuer and Müller were both in a Bayern side coached by Jupp Heynckes.

Haaland lost all seven games against Bayern with Dortmund, although he did manage five goals in those fixtures.

International team-mates:
João Cancelo & Rúben Dias, Bernardo Silva (Portugal)
Matthijs de Ligt, Daley Blind, Ryan Gravenberch & Nathan Aké (Netherlands)
Yann Sommer & Manuel Akanji (Switzerland)
Manuel Neuer, Joshua Kimmich, Leon Goretzka, Jamal Musiala, Leroy Sané, Serge Gnabry, Thomas Müller & İlkay Gündoğan (Germany)

Have also played together:
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting & İlkay Gündoğan (Nürnberg 2009/10)
Lucas Hernández & Rodri (Atlético de Madrid 2018/19)

Haaland scored twice past Sommer in Dortmund's 3-0 Bundesliga win against Borussia Mönchengladbach on 19 September 2020. The Norwegian also scored a double past Sommer in Dortmund's 2-4 Bundesliga defeat by Mönchengladbach on 22 January 2021.

Gündoğan and Kevin De Bruyne scored the goals as City beat Sommer's Mönchengladbach 2-0 in the 2020/21 UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg to complete a 4-0 aggregate win. Bernardo Silva had scored one goal and set up another in the first leg.

De Bruyne got Werder Bremen's only goal in a 6-1 Bundesliga loss to Bayern on 23 February 2013. He was also on target twice in Wolfsburg's 4-1 defeat of Bayern on 30 January 2015.

Gündoğan and Müller were on target for their respective teams as Nürnberg drew 1-1 against Bayern in the Bundesliga on 20 February 2010. Gündoğan also scored as Dortmund beat Bayern 4-2 in the 2013 German Super Cup.

Gündoğan scored past Sommer for Dortmund against Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga in both 2014/15 and 2015/16. He also beat the Bayern goalkeeper in Germany's 1-1 draw against Switzerland in the UEFA Nations League on 6 September 2020.

Müller scored past Ederson as Bayern drew 2-2 at Benfica in the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg.

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Bayern 

Bayern's record in all competitions in 2023 is W10 D4 L4. They were held 1-1 at home by Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga on Saturday but remain two points clear of Borussia Dortmund at the top of the table with six games to go.

Benjamin Pavard gave Bayern a 17th-minute lead, his team's 52nd first-half goal in the league this season equalling the Bundesliga record set by Bayern themselves in 2020/21.

Pavard's goal was his fourth in the league this season, matching his career best set in 2019/20.

On 24 March Bayern parted company with coach Julian Nagelsmann, appointing Thomas Tuchel as his successor.

Tuchel's first match in charge was a 4-2 victory against former club Dortmund on 1 April, Thomas Müller scoring twice.

Three days later Bayern lost 2-1 at home against Freiburg in the DFB-Pokal Cup quarter-finals, conceding the decisive penalty in added time.

The German Cup defeat by Freiburg was Bayern's first home loss of the season; they have won 13 games and drawn five, seven of those victories by a margin of three goals or more – though none in the last five.

Müller has now made 64 German Cup appearances for Bayern, one more than previous record holder goalkeeper Sepp Maier. Müller made his 436th Bundesliga appearance for Bayern on Saturday; only Maier (473) has played more.

In his last two games as Bayern coach, Nagelsmann oversaw a 5-3 win against Augsburg on 11 March and a 2-1 loss in Leverkusen one week later.

Pavard scored twice against Augsburg, when winter signing João Cancelo and Alphonso Davies registered their first league goals of the season.

Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting has 16 goals in his last 21 Bayern games.

Jamal Musiala has scored 11 league goals this season, as many as in the last two seasons put together. He is Bayern's leading Bundesliga scorer in 2022/23, one ahead of Choupo-Moting, but has not found the net since 26 February.

The Bavarian club were unbeaten in 20 matches in all competitions (W16 D4) before losing 3-2 in the Bundesliga at Borussia Mönchengladbach on 18 February.

That was Bayern's second defeat of the season, after a 1-0 league loss at Augsburg on 17 September; following the losses to Leverkusen, Freiburg and City, their record this season is now W29 D8 L5.

Choupo-Moting has missed Bayern's last three games with a knee injury.

Mathys Tel, who had been out since last month's international break after suffering an adductors injury with France's Under-19 team, made his return as a second-half substitute on Saturday having been an unused replacement in the first leg.

Manuel Neuer has been out since 9 December because of a lower leg fracture that required surgery.

Lucas Hernández has been out since 22 November with a knee injury.

On 3 March Choupo-Moting extended his contract until 2024.

In the recent UEFA EURO 2024 qualifiers Dayot Upamecano scored in France's 4-0 win at home to a Netherlands side for which club colleague Daley Blind came off the bench to win his 100th cap. Three days later Pavard scored the winner as France won 1-0 in Dublin against the Republic of Ireland. João Cancelo also opened the scoring for Portugal in a 4-0 home win against Liechtenstein, while Leon Goretzka won his 50th cap for Germany in a 3-2 friendly defeat by Belgium in Cologne.

Manchester City

City have won their last ten games in all competitions, beating Leicester 3-1 in Manchester on Saturday. It is their third longest winning run under Pep Guardiola, after 21 successive victories between December 2020 and March 2021 and 11 between August and October 2017.

Erling Haaland scored twice to make it 32 league goals in 28 games for City before being withdrawn at half-time with his team 3-0 up.

Haaland has equalled the Premier League record for goals in a 38-game season, with only the 34-goal totals of Andrew Cole (1993/94) and Alan Shearer (1994/95) surpassing his current haul.

John Stones had opened the scoring with his first league goal since 14 December 2021.

Haaland also struck twice in a 4-1 Premier League victory at Southampton on 8 April.

Kevin De Bruyne set up Haaland's first goal against Southampton, the Belgian's 100th Premier League assist. He is just the fifth player to reach a century and the fastest, bringing up the mark in 237 games compared to previous record holder Cesc Fàbregas's 293.

De Bruyne also set up Haaland's second goal on Saturday, his eighth Premier League assist for the Norwegian this season, the most goals one City player has provided for another in a single campaign, and a tenth in all competitions.

Saturday's assist was De Bruyne's 100th in the Premier League for City; only Manchester United's Ryan Giggs (162) had previously reached a century for one club.

Guardiola's side have scored 27 goals in their last six fixtures, following the 7-0 second-leg win against Leipzig with a 6-0 defeat of Championship leaders Burnley in the FA Cup quarter-final and a 4-1 Premier League victory against Liverpool on 1 April before beating Southampton, Bayern and Leicester.

City have now won their last 11 home games in all competitions, scoring 40 goals and conceding only five.

The Manchester club are also unbeaten in their last seven away matches in all competitions (W5 D2), since a run of three successive away losses between 11 January and 5 February. They have lost just four of their 21 away games this season (W11 D6), only one by a margin of more than one goal, and have not been beaten by a three-goal margin away from home since a 3-0 loss at Liverpool in the UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg on 4 April 2018.

Haaland scored a hat-trick against Burnley, his sixth for City.

The Norwegian has 14 goals in his last six games, including at least one in each, despite being sidelined by a groin injury between that Burnley fixture on 18 March and his two goals at Southampton.

Haaland's penalty winner in a 1-0 victory at Crystal Palace on 11 March was his 28th Premier League goal of the season, beating his previous best total for a league campaign – 27 for Borussia Dortmund in 2020/21.

Twenty of Haaland's league goals this season have come at home with 12 away. He is only the second City player to reach double figures for goals home and away, after Sergio Agüero (13 home, 13 away) in 2014/15.

Haaland's 27th goal came in a 4-1 win at Bournemouth on 25 February, overtaking Agüero's 26-goal mark in 2014/15 as the highest tally for a City player in a single Premier League campaign.

A 1-0 loss at Tottenham on 5 February was City's fourth Premier League defeat of the season, one more than in the whole of 2021/22.

Guardiola's side have 70 points after 30 Premier League games this season, three fewer than at the same stage in 2021/22.

The Cityzens will face another Championship club, second-placed Sheffield United, in the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley on 22 April.

City were knocked out of the English League Cup by a 2-0 quarter-final loss at Southampton on 11 January. That is their only away defeat by more than one goal all season.

Phil Foden, whose last appearance came as a substitute in England's 2-1 UEFA EURO 2024 qualifying win in Italy on 23 March, had surgery to remove his appendix three days later.

In the recent European qualifiers Nathan Aké scored twice in the Netherlands' 3-0 home win against Gibraltar, while Bernardo Silva was on target in both of Portugal's victories against Liechtenstein (4-0 h) and Luxembourg (6-0 a). Kevin De Bruyne also celebrated his 99th international appearance for Belgium by scoring what proved to be the winner in a 3-2 friendly victory away to Germany.