Omens foster Manchester City for Shakhtar visit

Manchester City FC and FC Shakhtar Donetsk both non-stop Group F with excellent wins, nonetheless a portents indicate to a home feat during a City of Manchester Stadium on matchday two.

• While these teams have never met before, Shakhtar have mislaid all though one of their matches in England and might have their work cut out opposite a City side who equalled their biggest win in a UEFA Champions League – group theatre to final – in their initial game. That said, Shakhtar’s new divided form in Europe has been imperious. 

Match background

Manchester City
• City are dominant in their final 10 home matches in a UEFA Champions League (W7 D3) given a 2-1 better by Juventus on matchday one in 2015/16. That 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.

• City’s usually prior encounters with Ukrainian clubs came opposite Shakhtar’s good rivals FC Dynamo Kyiv, whom they overcame 1-0 in Manchester in their 2010/11 UEFA Europa League turn of 16 second leg (1-2 aggregate) and held 0-0 in a second leg of a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League turn of 16 tie (3-1 aggregate).

• Third in final season’s Premier League, City were 4-0 winners during Feyenoord on matchday one and are creation a sixth unbroken UEFA Champions League coming – 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).

Shakhtar
• The Ukrainian champions have mislaid on 5 of their 6 trips to England, avoiding better usually on their second visit, a 1-1 pull during Tottenham Hotspur FC in a turn of 32 second leg during their winning UEFA Cup debate of 2008/09 (3-1 aggregate).

• In those 5 defeats, Shakhtar scored 6 goals and conceded 14, including a 5-1 detriment during Arsenal FC in a 2010/11 organisation stage. Their many new English assignment was a 1-0 retreat during Manchester United FC in 2013/14.

• Shakhtar are dominant during home to Premier League clubs, however, with a record W4 D2. Home and away, it is W4 D3 L5 F18 A19.

• Shakhtar, who started 2017/18 with a 2-1 win during home to SSC Napoli on matchday one, are creation their seventh organisation theatre coming in 8 seasons and their 12th in sum – 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 side 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).

• Shakhtar have won their final 5 European divided games, and have picked adult victories in 8 of their final 10 matches outward Ukraine, losing a other two.

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 Ukrainian organisation 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 withdrawal for City in 2013, scoring 31 goals in 183 joining appearances. 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 better of Marlos’s FC 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:
Fernandinho Taison, Fred (Brazil)
Olexandr Zinchenko Andriy Pyatov, Yaroslav Rakitskiy, Serhiy Kryvtsov, Taras Stepanenko, Viktor Kovalenko (Ukraine)

Article source: http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2018/matches/round=2000881/match=2021606/prematch/background/index.html?rss=2496773+Omens+favour+Manchester+City+for+Shakhtar+visit