Monaco against Manchester City: line-ups, statistics and previews -

Overview of the match for Monaco against Manchester City

Pep Guardiola will have the chance to avenge a humiliation in the Champions League when Manchester City will continue his league phase campaign with an outside match with Monaco on Wednesday.

City started the league phase with an impressive 2-0 victory against Napoli, and is now heading for the Louis II stadium, a place where they experienced a humiliating outing of the Champions League in the hands of Monaco in the last 16 in 2017.

The teams have clearly changed considerably since this equality eight years ago, and City is the heavy favorites to maintain their momentum with another victory.

City took five years after Burnley in the Premier League last Saturday, while Monaco was amazed 3-1 by Lorient in Ligue 1.

The main club was beaten 4-1 at Club Brugge in its first League phase game, but Guardiola does not take them lightly.

“What can I say? Always? I have been admiration for Monaco players for a long time,” said Guardiola.

“I remember an UEFA Super Cup final with Barcelona (against Monaco). Still they have a good team, they are linked to the channels, they are really aggressive in the game.

“I hope we can read what we have to do and try to win an important victory.”

When he was asked if he was concerned about City’s visit following Lorient’s surprise defeat, Monaco boss Adi Hutter, “said:” We have to analyze this match as quickly as possible so that we can be concentrated 100% on Manchester City.

“They are one of the best world teams, we will have to do our best, and perhaps we will have a chance to leave with something, but we know who we face.

“They will be the favorites, but we will prepare the team as best we can.”

Team news for Monaco against Manchester City

The Monaco midfielder is seriously exhausted for the visit of City.

Lamine Camara, Denis Zakaria, Aleksandr Golovin and Aladji Bamba were all excluded, Paul Pogba is not able to appear enough.

Lukas Hradecky and Christian Mawissa are not available either, and the teenage striker Paris Brunner is not eligible to play in the Champions League.

There are good news for Monaco, with Maghnes Akliouche France online to return from a disease.

The midfielder of the city Rodri is in good shape and available to play. He trained Tuesday after being sitting on the victory over Burnley. Rayan Cherki (thigh) has also trained but should not play.

“Yes, he feels much better than the match before Burnley,” said Guardiola about Rodri.

“Day after day, see how best he feels. The day before Burnley, he did not feel too well.

“Today, he feels much better so we will see.

Lines presented for Monaco against Manchester City

Monaco: Kohn; Vanderson, Dier, Kehrer, Henry; Akliouche, Coulibaly, Tueze, Fati; Balogun, Biereth

Manchester City: Donnarumma; Nunes, Stones, Gvardiol, O’Reilly; Gonzalez; Bobb, Silva, Reijnders, Doku; Trap

How to watch Monaco against Manchester City: TV and online flow

Monaco against Manchester City will be broadcast on TNT Sports 2. It will also be available on Discovery Plus and, for sky customers with a TNT package, on Sky Go.

The game starts at 8:00 p.m. BST.

Statistics for Monaco against Manchester City

Monaco is one of the only two games, with Real Madrid in 2024-25 (round in playoffs), to eliminate a team of Guardiola from the Champions League before the scene in the quarterfinals.
After this defeat in March 2017, Guardiola could lose his first two outside games against an opponent for the third time in his managerial career (also against Barcelona in October 2016 and Liverpool in January 2018).
Monaco has lost only one of their seven home games against the English teams in the Champions League (W5 D1), their only defeat against Arsenal in March 2015 (0-2). They won the three that took place in the group / league phase: 1-0 against Liverpool in 2004-05, 2-1 V Tottenham in 2016-17 and 1-0 V Aston Villa in 2024-25.
Guardiola has lost only two of his 33 games in the first two laps of a Champions League campaign (MD1 and MD2), winning 26 of them (D5). However, these two defeats occurred against the French teams, losing against Lyon in 2018-2019 and Paris Saint-Germain in 2021-2022.
Monaco only won one of their last seven games in the Champions League (D1 L5). Three of their five defeats during this period were at least three goals.

Prediction for Monaco against Manchester City

While Monaco had trouble in the last games of the Champions League and suffered a defeat in shock this weekend, City seemed to find their groove at the end of their rout of Burnley.

This Monaco team is far from the one who amazed the city in 2017, and Guardiola and his team should be able to avenge this defeat this time.

Prediction: Monaco 1-3 Manchester City

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