Preview: Manchester City vs. Paris Saint-Germain

Manchester City could make club history on Tuesday night if they manage to beat Paris Saint-Germain at the Etihad Stadium and advance to the semi-finals of the Champions League.

The quarter-final second leg is nicely poised at 2-2, but City have two away goals, and with away goals being very crucial at this stage of the competition, it puts Manchester City in poll position to qualify to the next stage

MANCHESTER CITY

Manchester City are looking forward to lift the championships league trophy with just four games away, and the first of that four is play out a goalless draw or a goal apiece will see City advance.

The Citizens’ campaign to win the Premier League title is over as they sit fourth in the table, 15 points behind leaders Leicester City with six games left to play, so there is even more importance put on the Champions League.

The positive for City is that 82% of teams who drew 2-2 away in the first leg made it through to the next phase of the competition.

Recent form (all competitions): DDLWDW

Paris Saint-Germain

PSG head into this game on the back of a league win as they overcame Guingamp 2-0 after resting a handful of players, but they too have struggled for consistency having won three, lost one and drawn one in their last five games in all competitions.

PSG may have beaten Chelsea in the last-16 round, but in terms of individual games, they have only won one of their past seven away games against English opposition.

The good news for PSG fans, though, is that their team have scored two or more goals in all of their last five Champions League games and Zlatan Ibrahimovic has netted in his past five games in the competition.

Recent form (all competitions): WWLWDW

Head To Head

Prior to last week’s quarter-final first leg, the two sides met in the UEFA Cup group stage in the 2008-09 season, which ended in a goalless draw.

Hart, Kompany and Pablo Zabaleta were all involved in the game, which was the first time that City had gone up against a French team.

During that competition, City, who were managed by Mark Hughes at the time, ended up finishing first in Group A and went on to lose in the quarter-finals, while PSG finished third and were knocked out at the same stage.

 

Preview: Manchester City vs. Paris Saint-Germain