Feyenoord face Manchester City in organisation return
Feyenoord’s initial compare in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre in 15 years pits them opposite a Manchester City FC side who are again looking to go low into a competition.
• While City have turn regulars during this theatre in new years, Feyenoord have not participated given 2002/03 – and have not won a compare in a foe correct in roughly 16 years – as they ready to face a English bar for a initial time.
• Feyenoord have enjoyed new success opposite antithesis from Manchester, however, beating City’s neighbours Manchester United FC in final season’s UEFA Europa League organisation stage.
Match background
Feyenoord
• Having carried a initial Eredivisie pretension in 18 years final season, Feyenoord are now 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 Rotterdam organisation mislaid in a third subordinate turn in both 2012/13 (to FC Dynamo Kyiv) and 2014/15 (to Beşiktaş JK).
• Feyenoord’s final win in a UEFA Champions League, organisation theatre to final, was a 2-1 success during home to FC Spartak Moskva on 31 Oct 2001. Their record given is D2 L4.
• The Dutch side played English antithesis in final season’s UEFA Europa League organisation stage, violence contingent champions Manchester United 1-0 during home though losing 4-0 away. They finished third in their section.Â
• That feat opposite United was Feyenoord’s initial during home to a Premier League bar given a 1-0 better of Everton FC in Nov 1995 in a UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup second round.
• Feyenoord’s record during home to English teams is W5 D1 L6; altogether it is W7 D5 L11.
Manchester City
• Third in final season’s Premier League, City are embarking on a sixth unbroken UEFA Champions League debate – and they have progressed to a turn of 16 or over in any of a final four.
• Last term, Josep 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).
• City did not win divided in final season’s competition, losing during Monaco and FC Barcelona (0-4) and sketch during Celtic FC and VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach. City have won usually one of their final 7 European divided games (D3 L3).
• The Barcelona compare was City’s biggest European defeat, home or away.
• City’s final outing to a Netherlands constructed their usually detriment there, a 3-1 retreat during AFC Ajax in a organisation stage on 24 Oct 2012.
• The Citizens’ usually other divided tie opposite an Eredivisie side was a 1-1 first-leg pull during FC Twente in a 1978/79 UEFA Cup initial turn – City won 4-3 on aggregate.
• The Manchester club’s altogether record opposite Dutch teams is W2 D2 L1.
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.
Match facts
Feyenoord
• Feyenoord degraded Vitesse 4-2 on penalties during their De Kuip track after a 1-1 pull in a Dutch Super Cup on 5 August.
• Van Bronckhorst’s organisation have won their initial 3 games of a 2017/18 Eredivisie season, a prominence a 5-0 home feat over Willem II on 27 August.*
• Teenage goalkeeper Justin Bijlow, deputising for a harmed Brad Jones, done his entrance for Feyenoord in their joining opener opposite FC Twente.
• Feyenoord are dominant during home given a 1-0 better by Fenerbahçe SK on UEFA Europa League matchday 6 final season. The Rotterdam club’s final domestic detriment during De Kuip was a 2-0 retreat opposite ADO Den Haag on 31 Jan 2016.
Manchester City
• City are 11 games dominant (W8 D3) in a Premier League, a run dating behind to early April.*
• Guardiola’s side have had dual players – Kyle Walker (1-1 v Everton FC) and Raheem Sterling (2-1 v AFC Bournemouth) – sent off in their initial 3 fixtures of a season.*
• Kevin De Bruyne played in Belgium’s 9-0 feat over Gibraltar on 31 Aug and a 2-1 delight in Greece 3 days later, a latter outcome confirming a Red Devils’ gift for a 2018 FIFA World Cup. Vincent Kompany featured in a initial of those matches.
*Subject to weekend updates