Manchester City adult opposite it for Liverpool return
Manchester City FC will need another large home win opposite Liverpool FC to extend their UEFA Champions League deteriorate after a five-time European champions constructed an well-developed arrangement during Anfield.
• Goals in a initial 31 minutes from Mohamed Salah, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Sadio Mané, and a dynamic defensive bid thereafter, yielded a 3-0 win for a home side on Merseyside on 4 Apr – nonetheless Liverpool will know a distance of a charge that still awaits them carrying already mislaid heavily during City this deteriorate in a Premier League.
• Although this is usually City’s second European tie opposite a associate English club, this is their second quarter-final in 3 years – and overall. Liverpool are in a quarter-finals for a initial time given 2008/09, yet have copiousness of knowledge opposite domestic rivals in general competition.
• This is a 17th time English clubs have been interconnected together in UEFA competition, and while City have been concerned in usually one of those prior ties, this is a tenth domestic event for Liverpool in a European arena, including 5 of a 9 UEFA Champions League knockout contests.
• Liverpool’s first-leg win was a initial by an English bar during home in a UEFA Champions League knockout proviso given Leicester City FC’s 2-0 better of Sevilla FC in final season’s turn of 16 – a run of 7 matches including all 5 in this season’s final 16 (D2 L3). There have usually been 4 wins by Premier League clubs in a final 18 knockout home matches over a past 4 seasons (D6 L8), City accounting for dual of those.
Previous meetings
• While this is a initial Liverpool-City diversion in Europe, a teams have met on 178 occasions in English football. Liverpool have won 87 of those games to City’s 45, with 46 draws.
• In this season’s Premier League, City were 5-0 winners in Manchester on 9 September. Sergio Agüero gave a home side a 24th-minute lead and, after a visitors had mislaid Mané to a red label following a plea on City goalkeeper Ederson, serve strikes possibly side of half-time from Gabriel Jesus and a late Leroy Sané double finished an eventually gentle win.
• Liverpool incited a tables on City during Anfield on 14 January, inflicting a initial – and so distant usually – better of a Premier League deteriorate on Josep Guardiola’s side with a 4-3 feat in an epic encounter. Oxlade-Chamberlain gave a Reds an early lead and, yet Sané leveled shortly before half-time, 3 goals in 10 second-half mins from Roberto Firmino, Mané and Salah put Liverpool 4-1 up. They indispensable that pillow after Bernardo Silva and Ä°lkay GündoÄŸan struck in a final 6 minutes, holding on for a noted win.
• This is a sides’ third two-legged knockout tie. Liverpool won both prior encounters, both in a English League Cup semi-finals: 2-1 on sum in 1980/81 and 3-2 in 2011/12. On both occasions a Merseyside bar went on to win a trophy.
Match background
Manchester City
• This is usually Manchester City’s second European Cup quarter-final:
2015/16 Paris Saint-Germain W 3-2 (2-2 a, 1-0 h)
• They have played usually one prior tie opposite a associate English club. In a 1970/71 European Cup Winners’ Cup semi-finals City, as holders, mislaid 1-0 both divided and home to Chelsea.
• City’s 13-match dominant home run in a UEFA Champions League (W10 D3), subordinate included, was finished by FC Basel 1893 in a turn of 16, a Swiss side winning 2-1 to inflict a initial home detriment given a 2-1 Juventus annulment on matchday one in 2015/16. Guardiola’s side won a initial leg 4-0 in Switzerland.
• This deteriorate City have beaten FC Shakhtar Donetsk (2-0), SSC Napoli (2-1) and Feyenoord (1-0) in Manchester. They had won 7 of their prior 8 home European matches, including 4 in a quarrel before losing to Basel.
• Having won their initial 5 games in this season’s competition, City mislaid 2-1 during Shakhtar on matchday six. They had formerly won 4-0 during Feyenoord and 4-2 during Napoli and have won 6 of their 8 matches in this season’s competition.
• City have won usually dual of a 6 UEFA foe ties in that they mislaid a divided initial leg – and have mislaid a final 4 such ties on aggregate, many recently opposite Sporting Clube de Portugal in a 2011/12 UEFA Europa League turn of 16 (0-1 away, 2-1 home – Sporting win on divided goals).
• Indeed, a Citizens have not won a tie on sum after an divided first-leg detriment given violence Górnik Zabrze in a 1970/71 European Cup Winners’ Cup quarter-finals, and even afterwards they indispensable a replay after any side won 2-0 during home; City were 3-1 victors in a third game.
• City’s record in chastisement shoot-outs in UEFA foe is W2 L0:
4-2 v FC Midtjylland, 2008/09 UEFA Cup second subordinate round
4-3 v Aalborg BK, 2008/09 UEFA Cup turn of 16
Liverpool
• Liverpool have won 9 of their prior 13 European Cup quarter-finals:
2008/09 Chelsea FC L 5-7 (1-3 h, 4-4 a)
2007/08 Arsenal FC W 5-3 (1-1 a, 4-2 h)
2006/07 PSV Eindhoven W 4-0 (3-0 a, 1-0 h)
2004/05 Juventus W 2-1 (2-1 h, 0-0 a)
2001/02 Bayer 04 Leverkusen L 3-4 (1-0 h, 2-4 a)
1984/85 FK Austria Wien W 5-2 (1-1 a, 4-1 h)
1983/84 SL Benfica W 5-1 (1-0 h, 4-1 a)
1982/83 Widzew Åódź L 3-4 (0-2 a, 3-2 h)
1981/82 PFC CSKA Sofia L 1-2 (1-0 h, 0-2 a)
1980/81 PFC CSKA Sofia W 6-1 (5-1 h, 1-0 a)
1977/78 SL Benfica W 6-2 (2-1 a, 4-1 h)
1976/77 AS Saint-Étienne W 3-2 (0-1 a, 3-1 h)
1964/65 1. FC Köln W 2-2, Liverpool won on silver toss (0-0 a, 0-0 h, 2-2 n)
• Liverpool have played 8 prior two-legged knockout ties opposite associate English sides, with a sum record W5 L3. Most recently they kick City’s internal rivals Manchester United FC in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League turn of 16 (2-0 home, 1-1 away), Firmino scoring in a initial diversion during Anfield.
• The Reds have played 6 European Cup ties opposite domestic rivals, commencement opposite Nottingham Forest FC in a 1978/79 initial turn (0-2 away, 0-0 home).
• Their remaining 5 all-English ties have all come in a UEFA Champions League era:
2004/05 semi-finals: Chelsea FC W 1-0 (0-0 a, 1-0 h)
2006/07 semi-finals: Chelsea FC W 4-1pens (0-1 a, 1-0 h aet)
2007/08 quarter-finals: Arsenal FC W 5-3 (1-1 a, 4-2 h)
2007/08 semi-finals: Chelsea FC L 3-4 (1-1 h, 2-3 a aet)
2008/09 quarter-finals: Chelsea FC L 5-7 (1-3 h, 4-4 a)
• Liverpool also played out dual goalless draws opposite Chelsea in a 2005/06 organisation stage.
• The Reds have therefore never won an divided European diversion opposite an English bar (D5 L4); their record opposite domestic rivals altogether is W6 D8 L5.
• Liverpool were 7-0 winners during NK Maribor on matchday three, their bar record European divided victory. They also won 5-0 during FC Porto in a turn of 16 initial leg, going by by a same sum score.
• They have though won usually 4 of their final 17 European divided games (D8 L5), carrying drawn 1-1 during FC Spartak Moskva in their initial Group E divided compare and let trip a 3-0 half-time lead to pull 3-3 during Sevilla FC in this season’s organisation stage. Before triumphing during TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in their play-off initial leg, a Merseysiders’ final divided success had been a 1-0 UEFA Europa League organisation theatre win during FC Rubin Kazan on 5 Nov 2015.
• Liverpool have triumphed in 29 UEFA foe ties when they have won a home initial leg – many recently opposite City’s neighbours Manchester United FC in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League turn of 16 (2-0 home, 1-1 away) – and mislaid usually five. Four of those sum waste came after a one-goal domain in a home initial leg; a difference was a 1964/65 European Cup semi-final opposite FC Internazionale Milano, when a 3-1 home win was overturned by a 3-0 retreat in Italy.
• The Reds have also won all 4 ties in that they triumphed 3-0 during home initial time out, including a 1972/73 UEFA Cup final opposite VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach (3-0 home, 0-2 away).
• Liverpool’s record in 4 UEFA chastisement shoot-outs is W3 L1:
4-5 v BeÅŸiktaÅŸ JK, 2014/15 UEFA Europa League turn of 32
4-1 v Chelsea FC, 2006/07 UEFA Champions League semi-final
3-2 v AC Milan, 2004/05 UEFA Champions League final
4-2 v AS Roma, 1983/84 European Champion Clubs’ Cup final
Coach and actor links
• Guardiola and Jürgen Klopp crossed paths 8 times between 2013 and 2015 as coaches of FC Bayern München and Borussia Dortmund respectively, Guardiola recording 4 wins to Klopp’s three. That enclosed a 2-0 delight in a 2014 German Cup final, while Dortmund came out on tip in a German Super Cup in both 2013 and 2014. The drawn tie came in a 2015 German Cup semi-final; Dortmund went by 2-0 on penalties.
• Since Klopp and Guardiola found themselves in antithesis in England, Liverpool have won all 3 home games opposite City, with a pull and a home win in a clubs’ Manchester fixtures.
• Klopp’s Dortmund kick City 1-0 in Germany after a 1-1 divided pull in a 2012/13 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• GündoÄŸan done 80 Bundesliga appearances underneath Klopp during Dortmund, scoring 9 goals, between 2011 and a coach’s 2015 departure. The midfielder was partial of a patrol that won a fasten and crater double in 2011/12, and scored a chastisement in Dortmund’s better by Bayern in a 2013 UEFA Champions League final.
• Raheem Sterling scored 18 goals in 95 Premier League games for Liverpool between 2012 and 2015, when he sealed for City.
• James Milner spent 5 seasons during City between 2010 and fasten Liverpool in 2015, creation 147 fasten appearances and scoring 13 goals. He was partial of a title-winning sides in 2012 and 2014, and also claimed winners’ medals in a 2011 FA Cup and a English League Cup 3 years later.
• Kyle Walker, Sterling and John Stones were in a England group that kick a Netherlands side captained by Virgil outpost Dijk and also featuring Georginio Wijnaldum 1-0 in Amsterdam on 23 March.
• International team-mates:
Kyle Walker, John Stones, Fabian Delph, Raheem Sterling Jordan Henderson, Adam Lallana, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Nathaniel Clyne, Dominic Solanke, Joe Gomez (England)
Vincent Kompany, Kevin De Bruyne Simon Mignolet (Belgium)
Ederson, Danilo, Fernandinho, Gabriel Jesus Roberto Firmino (Brazil)
İlkay Gündoğan, Leroy Sané Emre Can (Germany)
David Silva Alberto Moreno (Spain)
• Have played together:
Fabian Delph James Milner (Aston Villa FC, 2009–10)
Match facts
Manchester City
• Danilo, İlkay Gündoğan, Kevin De Bruyne, Nicolás Otamendi, Gabriel Jesus and Fernandinho will catch a cessation with their subsequent yellow cards.
• The initial leg was City’s heaviest better given a 4-0 Premier League detriment during Liverpool’s neighbours Everton FC on 15 Jan 2017.
• City suffered their initial home better of a deteriorate opposite Basel in a turn of 16 second leg, and their initial detriment during a City of Manchester Stadium given a 3-1 retreat opposite Chelsea FC on 3 Dec 2016. Their home record between those dual defeats was W29 L7; they have won 19 of their 22 home games this deteriorate in all competitions.*
• Guardiola’s side have scored 3 or some-more in 12 of those 22 home matches this season. However, they have managed usually 9 purify sheets, including usually dual in their final 8 matches.
• City have won all yet 4 of their 31 Premier League games this season. They have mislaid usually one of their final 39 fasten fixtures, winning 33 and sketch five.*
• The initial leg was usually a third time City have unsuccessful to find a net in a compare this season. Only Crystal Palace FC, in a Premier League on 31 Dec (0-0), and third tier Wigan Athletic FC in a final 16 of a FA Cup on 19 Feb (0-1) have also stopped them scoring.
• Sergio Agüero has 15 goals in 15 games in all competitions in 2018, and needs one some-more to turn a initial actor to measure 200 for City. His four-goal transport opposite Leicester City FC on 10 Feb was a third time he has managed 4 in a Premier League match; no other actor can compare that.*
• Raheem Sterling has 16 Premier League goals this deteriorate – 7 some-more than his prior best sum of nine, with Liverpool in 2013/14.*
• City claimed a initial silverware of a English domestic deteriorate with a 3-0 feat opposite Arsenal in a League Cup final during Wembley on 25 February, interjection to goals from Agüero, Vincent Kompany and David Silva. It is a fifth time a Citizens have won a competition.
• Benjamin Mendy has not played given a cruciate knee damage on 23 September. Fabian Delph suffered a flesh damage on 5 Mar and has not featured since; Agüero has been out given 10 Mar with a knee problem picked adult in training while John Stones missed a 3-1 win during Everton on 31 Mar with concussion.*
• De Bruyne was enclosed in a UEFA.com Fans’ Team of a Year 2017. The Belgian handed over a coupon from for €100,000 to a International Committee of a Red Cross (ICRC) before a second leg opposite Basel.
Liverpool
• Jordan Henderson serves a one-match cessation following his first-leg booking; Alberto Moreno is a yellow label divided from a ban.
• Liverpool have unsuccessful to measure in usually dual of their final 20 matches in all competitions. They have scored in their final 5 divided matches, and have unsuccessful to measure in usually one of their final 18 on a road. Overall Klopp’s side have unsuccessful to find a net in usually 3 of their 22 divided matches in 2017/18, including a 5-0 detriment during City in September.*
• Liverpool’s divided record this deteriorate is W12 D5 L5.*
• The Reds have mislaid usually one of their final 11 games in all competitions, winning eight.*
• Mohamed Salah has scored 17 goals in his final 15 appearances for Liverpool. The Egyptian has 29 Premier League goals in 31 appearances this season.*
• Nathaniel Clyne has not played for a initial group this deteriorate due to a behind damage – nonetheless he has been combined to Liverpool’s UEFA Champions League squad.*
• Joe Gomez had to be transposed early in England’s 1-0 feat divided to a Netherlands on 23 Mar with an ankle problem. Emre Can has been sidelined given 17 Mar with a behind injury.*
*Subject to weekend updates