Manchester City vs Borussia Monchengladbach – Preview

Posted on September 13, 2016 by Sreya

Manchester City vs Borussia Monchengladbach: Manchester City hosts Borussia Monchengladbach at the Etihad on 13th September, Tuesday in their first Group fixture of the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League.

Pep Guardiola’s side played a brilliant first half during their Manchester derby victory in the weekend and the English Premier League club will like to carry forward that momentum into Tuesday’s match.

Borussia Monchengladbach are coming off a 3-1 loss to Freiburg in Bundesliga and are likely to struggle in light of their injury-riddled squad.

Team News

Vincent Kompany, Ilkay Gundogan, Fabian Delph and Fernando are unfit to start while Yaya Toure is not a part of Manchester City’s Champions League squad. For Borussia Monchengladbach, Patrick Hermann joined Mamadou Doucoure, Alvaro Dominguez and Josip Drmic on the sidelines.

Manchester City Possible Starting Lineup: Claudio Bravo, Bacary Sagna, Nicolas Otamendi, John Stones, Aleksandar Kolarov, Fernandinho, Raheem Sterling, Kevin de Bruyne, David Silva, Nolito, Sergio Aguero.

Borussia Monchengladbach Possible Starting Lineup: Yann Sommer, Nico Elvedi, Andreas Christensen, Tony Jantschke, Ibrahima Traore, Tobias Strobl, Christoph Kramer, Oscar Wendt, Lars Stindl, Raffael, Andre Hahn.

“We have big, big targets in the Champions League. We are far to compete from the best teams in Europe. We have to improve a lot of things. We’re first in the Premier League but the way we have played until now, it will be not enough to win the Premier League so you have to improve.

Gladbach are a brave team, one of the best teams in Europe right now. They have a lot of quality. The draw was difficult for us. With the ball they are so, so intelligent.”

– Pep Guardiola, Manchester City.

According to Manchester City vs Borussia Monchengladbach H2H stats, the last two matches between these two clubs both ended in wins for the English Premier League side. Manchester City have kept a clean sheet in five of their last seven UEFA Champions League matches and are likely to win 2-0 on Tuesday.