Manchester City aim 5 in a quarrel opposite Feyenoord
Four wins from 4 have taken Manchester City FC into a UEFA Champions League turn of 16 with dual games to spare, with Group F’s bottom bar Feyenoord a latest organisation to try to miscarry their progress.
• Josep Guardiola’s side got off a symbol with a 4-0 feat in Rotterdam on matchday one and have 12 points out of 12, 3 some-more than FC Shakhtar Donetsk. City will bind initial place if they win and Shakhtar do not divided to SSC Napoli, who are third on 3 points, or if City pull and Shakhtar lose.
• Point-less Feyenoord are incompetent to finish in a tip dual and will be reliable in fourth if they pull and Napoli win or if Feyenoord remove and Napoli equivocate defeat.
Match background
Manchester City
• City, who had never played Feyenoord before matchday one, have won dual of their prior 3 home games opposite Dutch clubs, sketch a other – nonetheless they conceded dual goals in any match.
• The Citizens’ initial dual such engagements were both 3-2 UEFA Cup victories opposite FC Twente, in a 1978/79 initial turn second leg (4-3 on aggregate) and the 2008/09 organisation stage. Most recently, City were hold 2-2 by AFC Ajax in a 2012/13 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.Â
• City are dominant in their final 12 home fixtures in a UEFA Champions League (W9 D3), subordinate included, given a 2-1 Juventus annulment on matchday one in 2015/16. The Juve detriment was their fourth in 6 matches during a City of Manchester Stadium, with usually one win in that run. This deteriorate they have beaten Shakhtar (2-0) and Napoli (2-1) in Manchester.
• Josep Guardiola’s organisation took 7 points during home in final season’s organisation stage, violence VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach (4-0) and FC Barcelona (3-1) before a 1-1 pull with Celtic FC.
• Third in final season’s Premier League, City are creation a seventh true UEFA Champions League appearance – they have now progressed to a turn of 16 for 5 campaigns in a row.
• Last term, Guardiola’s organisation came second in their territory and mislaid on divided goals to AS Monaco FC in a final 16 (5-3 home, 1-3 away).
Feyenoord
• Feyenoord’s record in England is W2 D3 L5. They have mislaid on 3 of their final 4 visits, many recently a 4-0 retreat during City’s internal rivals Manchester United FC in a 2016/17 UEFA Europa League organisation stage.
• After Feyenoord lost 3-1 during Napoli and 3-1 during Shakhtar in this season’s organisation stage, a Dutch club’s 3-0 feat during R. Standard de Liège in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre on 12 Dec 2014 remains their usually win in their final 16 European divided games (D3 L13).
• Feyenoord’s final divided feat in a UEFA Champions League, organisation theatre to final, was a 1-0 delight during Newcastle United FC on 24 Sep 2002.
• Having carried a initial Eredivisie pretension in 18 years final season, Feyenoord are in a final 32 of a UEFA Champions League for a initial time given 2002/03, when they were separated in a initial organisation stage.
• The Rotterdammers mislaid in a third subordinate turn in both 2012/13 (to FC Dynamo Kyiv) and 2014/15 (to Beşiktaş JK).
Coach and actor links
• Feyenoord manager Giovanni outpost Bronckhorst was an Arsenal FC actor between 2001 and 2003; he played 90 mins of a 5-1 Premier League win during City on 22 Feb 2003.
• Have played in England:
Karim El Ahmadi (Aston Villa FC, 2012–14)
Brad Jones (Middlesbrough FC 2001–10, Liverpool FC 2010–15)
Steven Berghuis (Watford FC 2015/16)
• El Ahmadi scored one of his 3 Premier League goals for Villa in a 3-2 home feat over City on 28 Sep 2013.