As fashionable heavyweights of European soccer, Manchester City and Bayern Munich have loved some great tussles in latest occasions.
Man City are nonetheless trying to find their maiden Champions League crown whereas Bayern are established six-time winners on the continent.
The two have been drawn collectively within the 2022/23 Champions League quarter-finals, pitting two of the intense contenders to win the entire thing in opposition to one another. There’s an added stage of intrigue as Joao Cancelo not too long ago moved from City to Bayern within the January switch window on mortgage unexpectedly and is eligible to face his mother or father membership.
There is just not an enormous quantity of earlier video games between the 2 sides to attract from and so they haven’t confronted one another since 2014.
Here are all the earlier conferences between Bayern Munich and Manchester City and what went down.
Mario Gomez netted twice for Bayern Munich / CHRISTOF STACHE/GettyImages
The first skilled assembly between the 2 sides was a 2011 Champions League group stage match. Jupp Heynckes was the Bayern coach and Roberto Mancini was main City.
The two targets got here from Mario Gomez both aspect of half-time and helped the German aspect prime the group.
David Silva was a prime performer in opposition to Bayern Munich / Visionhaus/GettyImages
Surprisingly within the second assembly between the 2 sides in that group stage, it was City that ran out as winners with a 2-0 victory on the Etihad. David Silva and Yaya Toure had been the goalscorers.
The group contained Napoli and Villarreal and it was the Italians who joined Bayern within the subsequent spherical. City dropped into the Europa League after ending third.
Mario Gotze had not too long ago signed for Bayern Munich in 2013 / Boris Streubel/GettyImages
In the 2013/14 season, City and Bayern had been drawn in the identical group as soon as once more with the primary recreation in Manchester. This time, Pep Guardiola was answerable for the Bavarians in opposition to Manuel Pellegrini.
Franck Ribery, Thomas Muller and Arjen Robben made it 3-0 to Bayern earlier than Alvaro Negredo grabbed a late comfort. Jerome Boateng was additionally proven a late purple card.
James Milner and Sergio Aguero had been on the scoresheet in December 2013 / Michael Regan/GettyImages
Just like within the earlier group stage assembly, City gained the return recreation.
This time, Bayern had been 2-0 up after 12 minutes due to Muller and Mario Gotze, however targets from David Silva, Aleksandar Kolarov and James Milner secured a win for City.
Both groups progressed to the following spherical however it was Bayern who topped the group. Both groups had 15 factors after the six video games.
Jerome Boateng scored the winner in opposition to his former aspect / GUENTER SCHIFFMANN/GettyImages
The 2022/23 matches would be the first knockout video games between the 2 sides as the following two conferences had been additionally within the stage. The following season they had been in the identical group and Guardiola was nonetheless at Bayern.
The first match was very tight and it was a stoppage-time winner from Boateng that secured the factors for Bayern.
Two late Aguero targets had been essential for Manchester City / Alex Livesey/GettyImages
Sticking to the script specified by earlier seasons, City gained the second recreation of the group stage between the 2 groups. Mehdi Benatia was proven a purple card after simply 20 minutes and Sergio Aguero scored the ensuing penalty.
Surprisingly, Xabi Alonso and Robert Lewandowski scored twice earlier than half time and it took till the eighty fifth minute earlier than Aguero was in a position to rating twice extra and switch the sport round, though Bayern had ten gamers for 70 minutes.
The win was essential as City solely scraped into the spherical of 16 with eight factors from six video games.
Man City vs Bayern Munich H2H report
Player
Team represented
Goals
Sergio Aguero
Man City
3
Thomas Muller
Bayern Munich
2
Mario Gomez
Bayern Munich
2
David Silva
Man City
2
Arjen Robben
Bayern Munich
1
