After making light work of Southampton with a 4-0-win on Saturday afternoon, Manchester City’s confidence will be sky-high as they ready themselves to face FC Copenhagen in the Champions League.
Especially after thrashing the Danish side 5-0 last Wednesday, the Premier League champions will be fancying their chances of victory once again this time around.
As for FC Copenhagen, a 1-1 draw against Nordsjælland was not the ideal preparation going into a showdown against arguably the best team in Europe.
Manchester City will also be well aware of the permutations of Tuesday evening.
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Pep Guardiola and his players will be able to book their place in the knock-out stage of the competition via a win in the Danish capital.
As both sides go head-to-head for the second time in this season's Champions League, here are all of the notable statistics and potential landmarks worth taking a look at!
FC Copenhagen
- Pep Biel has the joint-highest combined goals and assists in the Danish Superliga (8 - 5 goals, 3 assists).
- Viktor Claesson has the joint-highest non-penalty goals in the league (6).
- Pep Biel and Viktor Claesson have the joint-most shots in the division (15).
- Viktor Bernth Kristiansen and Denis Vavro have played the joint-most minutes in the Champions League this term for FC Copenhagen (270).
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Manchester City
- Manuel Akanji has not been dribbled past even once in a Manchester City shirt so far.
- Joao Cancelo has the most assists in the 2022/2023 Champions League campaign (4).
- Erling Haaland is the only Manchester City player since Billy McAdams to score in ten consecutive appearances.
- Kevin De Bruyne has more assists than any other player in Europe this season (11).
- Ruben Dias is yet to be dribbled past in the Premier League even once.
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Previous Meetings
- Manchester City and FC Copenhagen have now faced each other three times in total, with two wins for the former and one game ending in a draw.
- The last time both sides met resulted in Manchester City beating FC Copenhagen 5-0 at the Etihad Stadium last week.
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Potential Landmarks
- Kevin De Bruyne (23) is one assist away from equalling Mesut Ozil and Marcelo’s assist tally (24) in the Champions League.
- Erling Haaland is two goals away from equalling the Champions League goal tallies of Kaka, Wayne Rooney, Samuel Eto’o and Antoine Griezmann.
- Nathan Ake is two appearances away from registering his 50th in a Manchester City shirt.
- Jack Grealish is two appearances away from registering his 50th in a Manchester City shirt.
- Erling Haaland is five goals away from 25 in a Manchester City shirt.
Topics: Nathan Ake, Jack Grealish, Manchester City, Champions League, Premier League, Football
Srinivas Sadhanand