Manchester City vs Borussia Dortmund UCL preview

Realizing that the English Premier League title is everything except guaranteed, Manchester City are this present tie's inside and out top picks, as they mean to make a first UEFA Champions League (UCL) semi-last debut since 2015/16. They have recorded four straight clean-sheet wins taking all things together rivalries, with that grouping supporting what is currently 12 European home games without rout (W11, D1).

City have furthermore won their last three UCL knockout apparatuses played here. Strikingly, Pep Guardiola's side haven't drawn a serious home game since December 15 (W11, L1), and their last three home triumphs have seen them go on ahead of schedule, in or before the fifteenth moment.

While Borussia Dortmund's sit tight for any European wonder (24 years) is not exactly a large portion of that of Man City's own European dry spell (51y), they also are feeling the pressing factor. After an Easter Saturday rout to Frankfurt, 'Bite the dust Borussen' will presently likely have to win the UCL to reemerge it in 2021/22.

Regardless of winning only three of their last 12 UCL knockout matches (W3, D1, L8), Dortmund have an even record (W4, L4) in UCL/European Cup quarter-finals, however English rivals have demonstrated irksome of late. Damningly, the 2013 UCL other participants have lost every one of their last five trips against such groups.

Dortmund have not performed well in England by and large (W4, D1, L8). Notwithstanding, they'll take some certainty from scoring in every one of their last 20 serious away games (W11, D2, L7), and from drawing their lone past visit to the Etihad Stadium (1-1) back in October 2012.

Players to watch: City's Kevin De Bruyne has helped four objectives and scored one of every three UCL appearances this term, while he's gotten two vocation objectives against Dortmund. In the interim, Erling Haaland, child of ex-City man Alf-Inge, is the opposition's driving goalscorer (ten objectives) and has gotten multiple times across Dortmund's last four UCL away matches.

Hot detail: City haven't yielded a UCL objective in a short time – just Arsenal (995 minutes) have bettered that record!