Man City vs Copenhagen Champions League round of 16 second leg preview: Where to watch, kick-off time, possible line-ups

Manchester City and Copenhagen meet in their UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg on Wednesday 6 March.

Where to watch Man City vs Copenhagen on TV

Fans can find their local UEFA Champions League broadcast partner(s) here.

What do you need to know?

Goals from Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva and Phil Foden enabled the Champions League title holders to leave Denmark with a 3-1 lead after the first leg, and City can feel reasonably confident ahead of the return fixture. They won both of their previous home games against Copenhagen, including a 5-0 victory as recently as October 2022.

The Danish champions were not discouraged by their first-leg performance, with midfielder Magnus Mattsson scoring on his club debut. At full time, defender Denis Vavro told UEFA.com: "We will try to go [to Manchester] and see if we can get a draw – or a win, maybe." Copenhagen have yet to prevail in seven UEFA club competition games in England (D2 L5), but hope springs eternal.

Predicted line-ups

Man City: Ederson; Akanji, Stones, Dias, Aké; Rodrigo; Silva, De Bruyne, Foden; Álvarez; Haaland
Misses next match if booked: Dias

Copenhagen: Grabara; Jelert, Vavro, McKenna, Meling, Diks; Højlund, Clem, Elyounoussi, Achouri; Mattsson
Misses next match if booked: Diks, Falk, Lerager, Meling, Vavro

Form guide

Man City
Form (all competitions, most recent first): WWWWDW
Most recent result: Man City 3-1 Man United, 03/03, English Premier League
English Premier League table

Copenhagen
Form (all competitions, most recent first): LWWLWW
Most recent result: Midtjylland 2-0 Copenhagen, 01/03, Danish Super League
Danish Super League table

Expert predictions

Steve Bates, Man City reporter
It is hard to see any other outcome than a second leg victory for Guardiola's side after their comfortable 3-1 win in Copenhagen. City have won 15 of their last 16 matches in all competitions (a 1-1 draw with Chelsea the only aberration) and are in unstoppable mood as the season enters a critical phase. Phil Foden, in particular, is in a rich vein of form with three goals in his last two games.

Sture Sandø, Copenhagen reporter
If Copenhagen manage overturn this 3-1 deficit, it would be the biggest result in the history of Danish club football. The Danish double winners usually put up a fight when travelling in Europe, but fans and players have not forgotten the 5-0 defeat in their last visit to the City of Manchester Stadium, in October 2022. Their hopes of going through are small, but the Lions will do all they can to get a result.

What the coaches say

Pep Guardiola, Man City coach: "Copenhagen are really well-organised and very compact. We were really good in the first leg over there - we know what happened to Manchester United and Galatasaray, and they are really strong. It's nice to have won the Champions League, and hopefully we can progress to the quarter-finals again tomorrow. But we have respect for Copenhagen and we know that anything can happen."

Jacob Neestrup, Copenhagen coach: "I know we are behind and away to the best team in the world; it is close to impossible. But we saw against City at Parken last season that you can be down for 35 minutes, and then one situation changes the dynamic. We have to chase those situations. I have a lot of focus on coefficient points [which determine when Danish sides enter UEFA competition}. That's why we mustn't lie down."

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