Manchester City v Lyon facts
Manchester City’s latest try to send their considerable domestic form into European success kicks off with a home diversion opposite Lyon, a organisation they have never formerly met though who have once again turn unchanging participants in a organisation stage.
• Champions of England for a third time in 7 seasons in 2017/18, City have reached a knockout rounds for a final 5 seasons. In contrast, Lyon have not reached a turn of 16 given 2011/12, though exaggerate copiousness of European expertise forward of a sides’ initial meeting.
Form guide
Manchester City
• Josep Guardiola’s side finished 19 points transparent in a English Premier League final season, picking adult a record 100 points – nonetheless there was disappointment as their European debate finished opposite informed opponents, domestic rivals Liverpool using out 5-1 total winners in a quarter-final.
• The 2-1 home second-leg better opposite Liverpool meant City mislaid both home games in final season’s knockout theatre – a 2-1 better opposite Basel in a turn of 16 second leg (5-2 aggregate) finished a 13-match dominant home run in a UEFA Champions League (W10 D3), subordinate included, stretching behind to a 2-1 Juventus annulment on matchday one in 2015/16.
• City won all 3 home games in final season’s organisation stage, including a 2-0 better of Shakhtar Donetsk, who are again among a antithesis this season. They had won 7 of their prior 8 home European matches, including 4 in a quarrel before losing to Basel.
• However, City have won usually one of their final 5 European matches, home and divided – losing a other four.
• City’s best opening was reaching a 2015/16 semi-finals; this is their eighth uninterrupted coming in a organisation stage.
• The Citizens’ home record opposite French clubs is W2 D1, nonetheless their many new match, a 5-3 better of Monaco in a 2016/17 UEFA Champions League turn of 16 initial leg, led to rejecting on divided goals after a 3-1 second-leg detriment in France.
Lyon
• Lyon are in a organisation theatre for a third time in 4 seasons – their 2015/16 and 2016/17 campaigns both finished during that hurdle.
• In 2017/18, Lyon done it as distant as a UEFA Europa League turn of 16, though were denied a possibility to seem in a final during their possess belligerent as they mislaid to CSKA Moskva during that stage.
• Les Gones tasted feat in England in 2017/18, Nabil Fekir and Bertrand Traoré scoring in a 2-1 feat during Everton in a UEFA Europa League organisation stage. Lyon also won 3-0 during home, and have mislaid usually one of their final 6 matches opposite English clubs, home and divided (W3 D2).
• Bruno Génésio’s side won 3 of their 5 divided games in Europe in 2017/18, losing usually one.
• Lyon were UEFA Champions League semi-finalists in 2010 and are in a organisation theatre for a 15th time – some-more than any other French club.
Links and trivia
• Guardiola’s Barcelona side kick Lyon in a turn of 16 of their winning 2008/09 UEFA Champions League campaign, winning 5-2 during a Camp Nou after a 1-1 pull during Lyon’s aged Stade de Gerland home.
• Jason Denayer assimilated City aged 18 in Jul 2013; he was on a club’s books until withdrawal for Lyon this summer, though never done a first-team appearance, carrying loan spells during Celtic, Galatasaray twice and Sunderland.
• Moussa Dembélé scored twice in Celtic’s 3-3 UEFA Champions League organisation theatre pull with City in Sep 2016.
• Have played together:
Benjamin Mendy Jérémy Morel (Marseille, 2013–15)
• Have played in France:
Benjamin Mendy (Le Havre 2010–13, Marseille 2013–16, Monaco 2016/17)
Bernardo Silva (Monaco, 2014–17)
Riyad Mahrez (Le Havre, 2011–13)
• Have played in England:
Memphis Depay (Manchester United, 2015–17)
Rafael (Manchester United, 2008–15)
Bertrand Traoré (Chelsea, 2015/16)
• International team-mates:
Eliaquim Mangala, Benjamin Mendy Nabil Fekir (France)
Bernardo Silva Anthony Lopes (Portugal)
Ederson, Danilo, Fernandinho Rafael (Brazil)
Kevin De Bruyne, Vincent Kompany Jason Denayer (Belgium)
• Benjamin Mendy and Nabil Fekir were both partial of a winning France patrol during this summer’s FIFA World Cup. Fekir was a late surrogate in a 4-3 win opposite Argentina in a turn of 16, Sergio Agüero scoring in a 90th notation for a South American side.