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It is Champions League time in the round of 32 and it is a Knockout time which has found City drawn with the 1st leg away to a top German side Schalke 04.
It has been an odd month and mainly Cup action with the League Cup Final coming up, the FA Cup 5th round banana skin at Newport County (professionally managed); despite both teams being happy with alternate dates, the FA bring forward our match with Everton intending to derail City’s effort to retain the title (grittily negotiated).
Can City overcome the German side and bring home a decent score for the home leg to get us through to the next round which is an open draw, meaning that no clubs from the same country being separated.
City have no History
City secured a 2-0 victory away at Schalke in the 2008 UEFA Cup. Benjani and Stephen Ireland scored the goals that night.
City also beat Schalke 5-2 on aggregate en route to winning the 1970 European Cup Winners' Cup. (I will have been at this game, although my memory of it is zero)
City Team News
out - Bravo
Doubtful
Kompany
Mendy
What if the Referee produces a Card
Schalke
Suspended: Mascarell
Misses next game if booked: Embolo, Rudy, Stambouli
City
Suspended: none
Misses next game if booked: Agüero, Otamendi, Fernandinho
City - Shalke04 connections - Rabbi Matondo
Latest Odds
Schalke - 10/1 Man City - 2/7 Draw - 5/1
Next up:-
City v Chelsea FC - Carabao Cup Final Wembley - Sunday 24th February 2019 KO:- 4.30pm
It is Champions League time in the round of 32 and it is a Knockout time which has found City drawn with the 1st leg away to a top German side Schalke 04.
It has been an odd month and mainly Cup action with the League Cup Final coming up, the FA Cup 5th round banana skin at Newport County (professionally managed); despite both teams being happy with alternate dates, the FA bring forward our match with Everton intending to derail City’s effort to retain the title (grittily negotiated).
Can City overcome the German side and bring home a decent score for the home leg to get us through to the next round which is an open draw, meaning that no clubs from the same country being separated.
City have no History
City secured a 2-0 victory away at Schalke in the 2008 UEFA Cup. Benjani and Stephen Ireland scored the goals that night.
City also beat Schalke 5-2 on aggregate en route to winning the 1970 European Cup Winners' Cup. (I will have been at this game, although my memory of it is zero)
City Team News
out - Bravo
Doubtful
Kompany
Mendy
What if the Referee produces a Card
Schalke
Suspended: Mascarell
Misses next game if booked: Embolo, Rudy, Stambouli
City
Suspended: none
Misses next game if booked: Agüero, Otamendi, Fernandinho
City - Shalke04 connections - Rabbi Matondo
Latest Odds
Schalke - 10/1 Man City - 2/7 Draw - 5/1
Next up:-
City v Chelsea FC - Carabao Cup Final Wembley - Sunday 24th February 2019 KO:- 4.30pm
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