Manchester City Vs FC Bayern München UEFA Champions League Football Match Score 2023
Bayern Munich will look to overcome a 3-0 deficit and advance to the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League when they host Manchester City in the second leg of a quarterfinal matchup on Wednesday at Allianz Arena. Bayern Munich have not advanced past the quarterfinals since winning the Champions League title in the COVID-19-delayed season of 2020. On Wednesday, the German giants face a tough task after losing the first leg decisively in Manchester last week.
Erling Haaland has had raging success in the Champions League over his career. In 26 Champions League matches, the 22-year-old striker from Norway has 34 goals and four assists. This season alone he has 11 goals and one assist in seven Champions League fixtures. That includes a goal and an assist against Bayern Munich last week.
Thomas Tuchel’s men have been formidable at home this season. They are a perfect 4-0 in four Champions League matches, with victories over Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona, Inter Milan and Viktoria Plzen. Bayern Munich have outscored their opponents, 11-0, and have prevented Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, Robert Lewandowski and Lisandro Martinez from finding the back of the net.
Returning to his former stomping ground without a shred of sentiment, Pep Guardiola leads his Manchester City team out for the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final with Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday night. The Premier League champions board their flight to Germany with a 3-0 advantage under their belts from last week’s first leg, where Thomas Tuchel’s Bavarian baptism of fire continued.
The action on the field at the Etihad Stadium was striking enough without Sadio Mane allegedly striking Leroy Sane in the face after the final whistle, as a faltering Bayern Munich side were served a slice of humble pie to leave their continental dreams hanging by the thinnest of threads. A first-half Rodri stunner preceded Bernardo Silva’s header and an obligatory goal for Erling Braut Haaland in a Manchester mauling, although a besotted Tuchel bizarrely claimed that he “fell in love” with his team, but there was no such infatuation from the ex-Chelsea boss at the weekend.
Letting a slender lead slip to draw 1-1 with Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga, where Andrej Kramaric cancelled out a Benjamin Pavard effort, Bayern hold just a two-point lead over Tuchel’s former club Borussia Dortmund atop the standings, and the Star of the South could very well end a season of transition with just the DFL-Supercup to their name. So far, the board’s brash decision to part ways with Julian Nagelsmann has not been vindicated, as Tuchel has won just two of his first five games at the helm, and Bayern have just one clean sheet to show from their last seven matches – not a reassuring statistic before facing Haaland and co, and neither is a two-game winless run at the Allianz Arena.
However, it has been over three years since the hosts failed to score in a competitive fixture at the Allianz Arena – drawing 0-0 with RB Leipzig in February 2020 – but only four teams have ever progressed from a Champions League knockout tie when losing the first leg by three goals or more, and none since Liverpool’s infamous Barcelona comeback of 2019. Another day, another page in the history books for Scandinavian sensation Haaland, who continues to delight his manager and fantasy football managers across the land during the Citizens’ remarkable end-of-season winning streak.
Following a sublime opener from John Stones against Leicester City, Haaland netted Premier League goal number 31 and 32 – equalling Mohamed Salah’s record for the most in a 38-game season – before ex-Man City striker Kelechi Iheanacho gave the forlorn away fans something to cheer. The dying embers of that 3-1 win were far from comfortable for Man City, but thanks to Arsenal letting successive 2-0 leads slip, the champions are right back in the thick of things in the Premier League, sitting four points off the Gunners with a game in hand.
Guardiola’s sky blue juggernaut is in full swing, with Man City travelling to the Allianz Arena on the back of their 10th successive win across all competitions – going unbeaten in their last 14 – and they have netted at least three goals in each of their last six fixtures. However, Man City notably failed to win any of their away games in this season’s Champions League group stage against Dortmund, Copenhagen and RB Leipzig – drawing all three – but a stalemate would be satisfactory here, even if Guardiola is pining for a 100th Champions League victory as a manager; a feat only achieved by Carlo Ancelotti and Sir Alex Ferguson.
The UEFA Champions League is back in action with another round of matches this week as Bayern Munich take on Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City side in an important clash at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday. Manchester City are currently in second place in the Premier League standings and have been in impressive form so far this season. The Cityzens eased past Leicester City by a 3-1 scoreline in their previous game and will look to achieve a similar result this week.
Bayern Munich, on the other hand, are at the top of the Bundesliga table at the moment but have been inconsistent this year. The home side played out a disappointing 1-1 draw against TSG Hoffenheim over the weekend and will need to take it up a notch to trouble the English side in this fixture. Manchester City have stepped up to the plate in recent weeks and remain the favourites to conquer Europe this season. Erling Haaland was at his prolific best in the first leg and will be determined to add to his goal tally at the Allianz Arena. Bayern Munich are yet to hit their stride under Thomas Tuchel and will have their work cut out for them this week. Manchester City are in better form at the moment and should be able to win this game.
