Manchester City penetrating to put one over Napoli
Manchester City FC mislaid out to SSC Napoli when a teams final met, though a English bar are drifting high in Group F as they demeanour to make it 3 wins from three.
• Having beaten Feyenoord 4-0 away before a 2-0 home win opposite FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Josep Guardiola’s side have non-stop adult a three-point pillow during a conduct of a standings. Shakhtar and Napoli, who were defeated 2-1 in Ukraine on matchday one though bounced behind with a 3-1 feat during home to Feyenoord, are 3 points back.
• City’s initial compare in a UEFA Champions League was during home to Napoli 6 years ago.
Previous meetings
• The teams’ usually past encounters came in a 2011/12 organisation stage, City’s entrance UEFA Champions League campaign, when they drew 1-1 in Manchester on matchday one. Edinson Cavani gave Walter Mazzarri’s visitors a 69th-minute lead; Aleksandar Kolarov equalised for City, afterwards managed by Roberto Mancini, 5 mins later.
• The line-ups during a City of Manchester Stadium on 14 Sep 2011 were:
Manchester City: Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany, Lescott, Kolarov (Clichy 75), Barry, Y Touré, Nasri (Johnson 76), Silva, Džeko (Tévez 81), Agüero.
Napoli: De Sanctis, Maggio, P Cannavaro, Zúñiga, Gargano, Aronica, Campagnaro, Inler, HamÅ¡Ãk (Santas 89), Lavezzi (Dzemaili 58), Cavani (Pandev 84).
• Napoli came out on tip in a matchday 5 supplement in Italy, however, Cavani scoring twice (17, 49) possibly side of Mario Balotelli’s 33rd-minute idea to secure a 2-1 home victory.
• That win valid essential as Napoli finished on 11 points in second place, one indicate and one place aloft than their English rivals.Â
Match background
Manchester City
• This is a third time City have been drawn in a same UEFA Champions League organisation as opponents from Italy. In 2014/15 they collected 4 points from AS Roma (1-1 home, 2-0 away) though in a many new Anglo-Italian contest, opposite Juventus in 2015/16, they mislaid 2-1 during home and 1-0 away.
• That better by Juve in Manchester was City’s initial during home to Italian visitors and means they have won nothing of their final 4 home games opposite Serie A sides (D3 L1) – carrying achieved victories in both a initial two.
• The win during Roma is City’s usually success in their final 8 meetings with Italian clubs, home and divided (D4 L3).
• City are dominant in their final 11 home matches in a UEFA Champions League (W8 D3), subordinate included, given that Juventus annulment on matchday one in 2015/16. The Juve detriment was their fourth in 6 fixtures during a City of Manchester Stadium, with usually one win in that run.
• 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 progressed to a turn of 16 or over in any of a final 4 campaigns.
• 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).
Napoli
• The Partenopei are dominant in their final 3 games opposite Premier League clubs (W2 D1), given a 2-0 detriment during Arsenal FC in a 2013/14 organisation stage. That was their third retreat in 4 trips to England, a 2011 pull during City a usually time they avoided better in that run.
• Most recently, Napoli drew 0-0 during Swansea City AFC in a 2013/14 UEFA Europa League turn of 32 initial leg, winning 3-1 during home.
• The pull during Swansea gave Napoli a record W0 D2 L3 divided to Premier League sides. In contrast, they have won 4 of their 5 home matches, sketch a other.
• Defeat during Shakhtar on matchday one was Napoli’s third in 10 European divided fixtures given a start of 2015/16 (W6 D1). They picked adult 7 points divided from home in final year’s organisation stage.
• Napoli are in a organisation theatre for a second year running. In 2016/17, a Partenopei mislaid to contingent champions Real Madrid CF in a turn of 16, going down 3-1 both away and at home.
• The Italian organisation competent for this season’s organisation theatre by violence OGC Nice 2-0 both home and away in a play-offs.
Coach and actor links
• Guardiola played in Serie A with Roma and Brescia, and was a team-mate of Pepe Reina during Barcelona in 2000/01.
• Reina played in England with Liverpool between 2005 and 2013; his record opposite City was W7 D9 L2 with 9 purify sheets in that time – including all of his initial 6 games.
• Vlad Chiricheş played for Tottenham Hotspur FC between 2013 and 2015. His solitary coming opposite City came in a 5-1 joining better during White Hart Lane on 29 Jan 2014.
• Emanuele Giaccherini played for Sunderland AFC between 2013 and 2015. He was a second-half surrogate in a 2014 League Cup final, that Sunderland mislaid 2-1 opposite City.
• Giaccherini scored in Italy’s 2-0 win over De Bruyne’s Belgium in a UEFA EURO 2016 organisation stage. Belgium’s Jason Denayer was an new substitute.
• Lorenzo Insigne scored for Italy opposite David Silva’s Spain in a 1-1 accessible pull in Udine in Mar 2016.
• Marek HamÅ¡Ãk scored as Slovakia degraded Leroy Sané’s Germany 3-1 in a pre-UEFA EURO 2016 friendly.
• Played together:
Kyle Walker Vlad Chiricheș (Tottenham, 2013–15)
Danilo Rafael Cabral (Santos FC, 2010–11)
• International team-mates:
Kevin De Bruyne, Jason Denayer, Vincent Kompany Dries Mertens (Belgium)
Danilo Rafael Cabral (Brazil, 2012)