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FC Shakhtar Donetsk reason a transparent advantage in a foe for second place in Group F, though they still need a pull on matchday 6 to pledge themselves progress – and removing that indicate competence be a high sequence opposite a Manchester City FC side who have won all 5 games, and a section.
• The Ukrainian organisation were beaten 2-0 in Manchester on matchday two and also mislaid their many new fixture, 3-0 during SSC Napoli. Shakhtar though have 9 points, 3 some-more than a Italian club, and will be by if they equivocate better or if Napoli do not win divided to Feyenoord, who have mislaid all 5 matches.
• City have 15 points, and will finish first. They have scored 4 goals in any of their divided games.
Match background
Shakhtar
• The Donetsk side have won both home fixtures so far, violence Napoli 2-1 on matchday one and Feyenoord 3-1.
• Shakhtar are dominant during home to English visitors (W4 D2); their many new knowledge was a 1-1 pull with City’s neighbours Manchester United FC in a 2013/14 organisation stage.
• The Pitmen’s record opposite Premier League clubs, home and away, is W4 D3 L6.
• Shakhtar are personification their UEFA Champions League home games in Kharkiv this deteriorate due to a domestic conditions in Ukraine, and have won usually 5 of their final 14 home matches in a foe proper, organisation theatre to final.
• Márcio Azevedo, Taison and Marlos all called a OSK Metalist Stadion home before fasten Shakhtar from FC Metalist Kharkiv.
• Shakhtar are creation their seventh organisation theatre coming in 8 seasons and their 12th in total – all given 2000. They have got to a final 16 on 3 occasions: 2010/11 (when they reached a quarter-finals), 2012/13 and 2014/15.
• In 2016/17, a Ukrainian organisation mislaid to BSC Young Boys in a third subordinate turn (2-0 home, 0-2 away, 2-4 on penalties). They eventually done it to a UEFA Europa League turn of 32, going down to RC Celta de Vigo (1-0 away, 0-2 home aet).
• That Celta better finished Shakhtar’s five-game winning run, and is their usually better in their final 12 home matches in Europe (W9 D2).
Manchester City
• City can join a bar of 6 teams to win all 6 games in a UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• Before this season, all 4 of City’s encounters with Ukrainian clubs had concerned FC Dynamo Kyiv.
• City’s record in Ukraine is W1 L1. They were beaten 2-0 during Dynamo in a 2010/11 UEFA Europa League turn of 16 (1-2 aggregate) though overcame a same opponents during a same theatre of a UEFA Champions League 5 years after (3-1 away, 0-0 home).
• Their altogether record with Ukrainian sides is therefore W3 D1 L1.
• This season, a Citizens have won 4-0 during Feyenoord and 4-2 during Napoli.
• City did not win divided in final season’s competition, losing during AS Monaco FC (1-3) and FC Barcelona (0-4) and sketch during Celtic FC (3-3) and VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach (1-1). They have won usually 3 of their final 9 European divided fixtures (D3 L3).
• The Barcelona compare was City’s biggest European defeat, home or away.
 • Third in final season’s Premier League, City are creation a sixth unbroken UEFA Champions League appearance – they have progressed to a turn of 16 or over in any of a final 4 campaigns. On a usually other arise they won their group, 2015/16, they got as distant as a semi-finals.
• Last term, Guardiola’s group came second in their territory and mislaid on divided goals to Monaco in a final 16 (5-3 home, 1-3 away).
Coach and actor links
• Shakhtar’s record European better was a 7-0 detriment during Guardiola’s FC Bayern München in a 2014/15 turn of 16. The Pitmen mislaid 4 of their 5 fixtures opposite Barcelona when Guardiola was in charge, including a 2009 UEFA Super Cup (0-1).
• Fernandinho was a Shakhtar actor between 2005 and 2013 when he left for City, scoring 31 goals in 183 joining outings. He was named Ukraine’s Premier League actor of a year in 2007/08, and amassed 6 joining titles, 4 Ukrainian Cups and a 2008/09 UEFA Cup.
• Fernandinho’s Shakhtar team-mates enclosed Darijo Srna, Andriy Pyatov, Yaroslav Rakitskiy, Serhiy Kryvtsov, Taras Stepanenko and Taison.
• On 2 May 2012, Fernandinho scored a leader in Shakhtar’s 2-1 feat over Marlos’s Metalist Kharkiv.
• İlkay Gündoğan was in a Borussia Dortmund side that kick Shakhtar 3-0 in their UEFA Champions League turn of 16 second leg on 5 Mar 2013. Pyatov, Srna, Rakitskiy, Taison and Fernandinho featured for a visitors.
• Olexandr Zinchenko came by a ranks during Shakhtar though over for City in Jul 2016 but creation a comparison appearance.
• Yaya Touré played for FC Metalurh Donetsk from 2003 to 2005, losing both games opposite Shakhtar.
• Danilo, Nicolás Otamendi and Eliaquim Mangala played underneath stream Shakhtar manager Paulo Fonseca during FC Porto in 2013/14.
• International team-mates:
Taison, Fred Fernandinho (Brazil)
Andriy Pyatov, Yaroslav Rakitskiy, Serhiy Kryvtsov, Taras Stepanenko, Viktor Kovalenko  Olexandr Zinchenko (Ukraine)