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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2016/17 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Celtic Park - Glasgow Wednesday 28 September 2016 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Celtic FC Group C - Matchday 2 Manchester City FC Last updated 15/03/2017 23:58CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Squad list 6 Head coach 9 Match officials 10 Fixtures and results 12 Match-by-match lineups 16 Competition facts 18 Team facts 19 Legend 21 1 Celtic FC - Manchester City FC Wednesday 28 September 2016 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit Celtic Park, Glasgow Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Celtic FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Eduardo 28 (P), 3-1 26/08/2009 PO Arsenal FC - Celtic FC London Eboué 53, Arshavin agg: 5-1 74; Donati 90+2 Gallas 43, G. Caldwell 18/08/2009 PO Celtic FC - Arsenal FC 0-2 Glasgow 71 (og) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers McDonald 13; Giggs 05/11/2008 GS Celtic FC - Manchester United FC 1-1 Glasgow 84 Manchester United FC - Celtic Berbatov 30, 51, 21/10/2008 GS 3-0 Manchester FC Rooney 76 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 21/11/2006 GS Celtic FC - Manchester United FC 1-0 Glasgow Nakamura 81 Saha 30 (P), 40, Solskjær 47; Manchester United FC - Celtic 13/09/2006 GS 3-2 Manchester Vennegoor of FC Hesselink 21, Nakamura 43 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-2 Thompson 45, 20/03/2003 QF Liverpool FC - Celtic FC Liverpool agg: 1-3 Hartson 82 13/03/2003 QF Celtic FC - Liverpool FC 1-1 Glasgow Larsson 2; Heskey 17 0-2 14/11/2002 R2 Blackburn Rovers FC - Celtic FC Blackburn Larsson 15, Sutton 67 agg: 0-3 31/10/2002 R2 Celtic FC - Blackburn Rovers FC 1-0 Glasgow Larsson 85 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 30/09/1997 R1 Liverpool FC - Celtic FC Liverpool agg: 2-2 ag McNamara 52, Donnelly 74 (P); 16/09/1997 R1 Celtic FC - Liverpool FC 2-2 Glasgow Owen 7, McManaman 89 2 Celtic FC - Manchester City FC Wednesday 28 September 2016 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit Celtic Park, Glasgow UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Celtic FC - Nottingham Forest 1-2 MacLeod 80; Hodge 07/12/1983 R3 Glasgow FC agg: 1-2 53, Walsh 74 23/11/1983 R3 Nottingham Forest FC - Celtic FC 0-0 Nottingham European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-1 Hughes 47, Murdoch 15/04/1970 SF Celtic FC - Leeds United Glasgow agg: 3-1 51; Bremner 14 01/04/1970 SF Leeds United - Celtic FC 0-1 Leeds Connelly 1 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-0 19/04/1966 SF Liverpool FC - Celtic FC Liverpool Smith 59, Strong 65 agg: 2-1 14/04/1966 SF Celtic FC - Liverpool FC 1-0 Glasgow Lennox 52 Manchester City FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Manchester City FC have not played against a club from their opponents' country Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Celtic FC 9 4 3 2 9 3 2 4 0 0 0 0 18 7 5 6 18 20 Manchester City FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Celtic FC - Manchester City FC Wednesday 28 September 2016 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit Celtic Park, Glasgow Match background Celtic FC will be looking to put their worst defeat in Europe behind them when they host Group C rivals Manchester City FC on matchday two. • The Scottish champions' 7-0 humbling by FC Barcelona on 13 September was their record loss in European competition and they next face a Manchester City side who began their campaign with a 4-0 success against VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach. Previous meetings • Although this is the clubs' first official encounter, they have met in friendly matches. City beat Celtic 2-1 in Manchester in August 2009 with Gareth Barry and Carlos Tévez scoring either side of Chris Killen. Pablo Zabaleta was in City's team that day along with Kolo Touré, now a Celtic player. • The teams had previously drawn 1-1 in a July 2008 friendly at Celtic Park, Paul McGowan cancelling out Martin Petrov's strike for City. Match background Celtic • Celtic posted home wins over Gibraltar's Lincoln FC (3-0), Kazakhstan's FC Astana (2-1) and Israel's Hapoel Beer- Sheva FC (5-2) in qualifying for this season's UEFA Champions League group stage. However, in the UEFA Europa League group stage last term they took only one point from three games at Celtic Park. • Celtic's home record against English clubs is W4 D3 L2. • Their most recent visitors from south of the border were Arsenal FC, 2-0 winners in a UEFA Champions League qualifying tie in August 2009 with a team including Bacary Sagna and Gaël Clichy. • Celtic last overcame English opposition a decade ago when defeating City's neighbours Manchester United FC 1-0 with a Shunsuke Nakamura free-kick in a UEFA Champions League group stage fixture in November 2006. Manchester City • For City this is the first official meeting with a team from Scotland. Josep Guardiola's men beat Scottish Premier League side St Johnstone FC 3-0 in a pre-season friendly behind closed doors at their training ground in Manchester on 3 August through goals from Fabian Delph, David Silva and Fernandinho. • City's record on the road in the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League was W3 D1 L2. Coach and player links • Brendan Rodgers' first match managing in the Premier League was a 4-0 defeat at City with Swansea City AFC in August 2011, though later that season he oversaw a 1-0 home win over the Manchester club. As Liverpool FC manager he saw his team finish two points behind City in the race for the league title in 2013/14. His record against them with the Reds was W2 D2 L2. • Rodgers gave Raheem Sterling his first league start as a Liverpool player in October 2012. • Kolo Touré played for City from 2009 to 2013 and won the Premier League (2012) and FA Cup (2011) with the club. Last season he appeared as a 25th-minute substitute in the Liverpool team beaten on penalties by City in the English League Cup final. • Yaya Touré, brother of Kolo, is a City player but is absent from their UEFA Champions League squad. • Patrick Roberts is on loan at Celtic from City where he played three games last term – one in the Premier League and two in the English League Cup. • Dedryck Boyata was a City player between 2008 and 2015 but made only 13 Premier League appearances. • Vincent Kompany faced Celtic with RSC Anderlecht in the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League group stage, winning 1-0 at home but losing 3-1 in Glasgow. • Kompany was sent off when his Belgium side won 1-0 at Nir Bitton's Israel in a UEFA EURO 2016 qualifier in March 2015. Kevin De Bruyne also featured. • Jesús Navas won the 2007 UEFA Cup with Sevilla FC at Glasgow's Hampden Park, beating RCD Espanyol in the final. • Mark Lawwell, son of Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell, works for City as their scouting information and content manager. • Have played together: 4 Celtic FC - Manchester City FC Wednesday 28 September 2016 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit Celtic Park, Glasgow Kolo Touré & Sterling (Liverpool FC) Scott Sinclair & Delph (Aston Villa FC) Logan Bailly, Boyata & Kompany (Belgium) • Billy McNeill, Celtic's European Cup-winning captain in 1967, was City manager between 1983 and 1986. Match facts Celtic • Celtic's perfect start to the Scottish Premiership season was ended by Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC on 18 September, the Highland outfit twice coming from behind to earn a 2-2 draw. • Sinclair was on the scoresheet for the sixth consecutive league game on Saturday as Celtic recovered from a goal down to beat Kilmarnock FC 6-1. • The Inverness game marked Jozo Šimunović's first appearance for Celtic since 23 January. • The 2-0 home win against Alloa Athletic FC in the Scottish League Cup quarter-finals on 21 September – secured by late goals from James Forrest and Moussa Dembélé – represented Rodgers's team's first clean sheet in eight matches. Manchester City • Guardiola has started his reign as City manager with ten successive victories. • City's last defeat in any competition came in the second leg of the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League semi-finals, 1- 0 against Real Madrid CF. • Sergio Agüero returned from a three-game domestic ban by scoring twice in the 3-1 win away to Swansea on Saturday. • Ilkay Gündoğan scored on his Premier League debut as City triumphed 4-0 against AFC Bournemouth on 17 September. • Clichy's first goal since 30 November 2014 set the Citizens en route to a 2-1 victory at Swansea in the English League Cup on 21 September. Holders City will visit Manchester United FC in the fourth round next month. • Making his first appearance for club or country since 4 May, Kompany sustained a groin injury late on in the cup tie against Swansea.