Man City v Bayern
Almost seven years after swapping Munich for Manchester , Josep Guardiola faces his former club as German champions Bayern München visit their English counterparts Manchester City for the first leg of their Uefa Champions League quarterfinal.
Guardiola guided Bayern to three Bundesliga titles – and three Uefa Champions League semifinals – during his three years in Munich and will now look to plot a way past the German champions in what is the first knockout meeting between the clubs. Bayern, who on 24 March replaced Julian Nagelsmann with Thomas Tuchel – coach of Chelsea when they beat City in the 2021 final – are looking to reach the semifinals for the first time since 2019/20, when they claimed their sixth European Cup. City have made the last four in each of the last two seasons, although they suffered three successive quarterfinal exits under Guardiola before that. The sides reached the last eight in contrasting fashion, Bayern coming through a heavyweight round of 16 contest against Paris Saint-Germain while City eliminated German opposition at the same stage, a 7-0 second-leg victory at home to Leipzig equalling their biggest win in Uefa competition. This is the only one of this season's Uefa Champions League quarterfinals between reigning domestic champions. Previous Meetings This is the sides' seventh meeting, with each having recorded three victories. All six of those contests came in the Uefa Champions League group stage between September 2011 and November 2014. Each side recorded a 2-0 home victory in 2011/12, Mario Gomez's first-half double (38, 45+1) giving Jupp Heynckes' Bayern a Matchday 2 win in Munich before David Silva (36) and Yaya Touré (52) earned City the points in Manchester on Matchday 6. Bayern finished top of Group A on 13 points, with Roberto Mancini's City eliminated having finished third on ten. The roles were reversed in 2013/14, by which time Guardiola was in charge of Bayern, each game finishing in an away win. Franck Ribéry (7), Thomas Müller (56) and Arjen Robben (59) scored in Bayern's 3-1 victory in Manchester on Matchday 2, Álvaro Negredo's 79th-minute strike City's only response.
