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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2015/16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS City of Manchester Stadium - Manchester Tuesday 8 December 2015 Manchester City FC 20.45CET (19.45 local time) VfL Borussia Group D - Matchday 6 Mönchengladbach Last updated 05/05/2016 19:44CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Squad list 7 Head coach 10 Match officials 11 Fixtures and results 12 Match-by-match lineups 16 Group Standings 18 Team facts 20 Legend 22 1 Manchester City FC - VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach Tuesday 8 December 2015 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Stindl 54; VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach - 30/09/2015 GS 1-2 Monchengladbach Demichelis 65, Manchester City FC Agüero 90 (P) UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kulik 45, Bruns 52, VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-1 20/03/1979 QF Monchengladbach Del'Haye 71; Deyna - Manchester City FC agg: 4-2 78 Manchester City FC - VfL Channon 26; Lienen 08/03/1979 QF 1-1 Manchester Borussia Mönchengladbach 66 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Manchester City FC 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 4 5 VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 5 4 Manchester City FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Agüero 22 (P), 85, Manchester City FC - FC Bayern 25/11/2014 GS 3-2 Manchester 90+1; Xabi Alonso 40, München Lewandowski 45 FC Bayern München - 17/09/2014 GS 1-0 Munich Boateng 90 Manchester City FC UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Müller 5, Götze 12; FC Bayern München - 10/12/2013 GS 2-3 Munich Silva 28, Kolarov 59 Manchester City FC (P), Milner 62 Manchester City FC - FC Bayern Negredo 79; Ribéry 7, 02/10/2013 GS 1-3 Manchester München Müller 56, Robben 59 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Borussia Dortmund - 04/12/2012 GS 1-0 Dortmund Schieber 57 Manchester City FC Manchester City FC - Borussia Balotelli 90 (P); Reus 03/10/2012 GS 1-1 Manchester Dortmund 61 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Manchester City FC - FC Bayern 07/12/2011 GS 2-0 Manchester Silva 36, Touré 52 München 2 Manchester City FC - VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach Tuesday 8 December 2015 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester UEFA Champions League FC Bayern München - 27/09/2011 GS 2-0 Munich Gomez 38, 45+1 Manchester City FC UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Manchester City FC - Hamburger 2-1 Elano 17 (P), Caicedo 16/04/2009 QF Manchester SV agg: 3-4 50; Guerrero 12 Mathijsen 9, Hamburger SV - Manchester City 09/04/2009 QF 3-1 Hamburg Trochowski 63 (P), FC Guerrero 79; Ireland 1 FC Schalke 04 - Manchester City 27/11/2008 GS 0-2 Gelsenkirchen Benjani 32, Ireland 66 FC UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Doyle 8, Young 22, Manchester City FC - FC 5-1 15/04/1970 SF Manchester 28, Lee 50, Bell 81; Schalke 04 agg: 5-2 Libuda 89 FC Schalke 04 - Manchester City 01/04/1970 SF 1-0 Gelsenkirchen Libuda 76 FC VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Juskowiak 22, 89, VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-2 25/09/1996 R1 Cologne Effenberg 74; I. - Arsenal FC agg: 6-4 Wright 42, Merson 49 Merson 54, I. Wright Arsenal FC - VfL Borussia 90; Juskowiak 28, 10/09/1996 R1 2-3 London Mönchengladbach Effenberg 46, Passlack 81 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Liverpool FC - VfL Borussia 3-0 Kennedy 6, Dalglish 12/04/1978 SF Liverpool Mönchengladbach agg: 4-2 35, Case 54 VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach Hannes 28, Bonhof 29/03/1978 SF 2-1 Dusseldorf - Liverpool FC 90; Johnson 89 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers McDermott 28, Smith Liverpool FC - VfL Borussia 25/05/1977 F 3-1 Rome 65, Neal 83 (P); Mönchengladbach Simonsen 51 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach - 2-0 23/05/1973 F Monchengladbach Heynckes 31, 40 Liverpool FC agg: 2-3 3 Manchester City FC - VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach Tuesday 8 December 2015 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester UEFA Cup Liverpool FC - VfL Borussia Keegan 21, 32, 10/05/1973 F 3-0 Liverpool Mönchengladbach Lloyd 61 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Everton FC - VfL Borussia Morrissey 1; 04/11/1970 R2 agg: 2-2 (aet, 4- Liverpool Mönchengladbach Laumen 34 3pens) VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach - Vogts 35; Kendall 21/10/1970 R2 1-1 Monchengladbach Everton FC 47 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Manchester City FC 7 4 2 1 9 3 0 6 0 0 0 0 16 7 2 7 24 23 VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 5 3 1 1 4 1 2 1 3 1 0 2 12 5 3 4 18 20 4 Manchester City FC - VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach Tuesday 8 December 2015 - 20.45CET (19.45 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Match background Manchester City FC and VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach both still have unfinished business in Group D when they meet in their final fixture on matchday six. • City have qualified for the last 16 but after losing 1-0 at Juventus last time out, Manuel Pellegrini's men need to beat Mönchengladbach and hope for a Juve defeat at Sevilla FC in order to snatch first place. • As for André Schubert's Gladbach, they sit third after beating Sevilla 4-2 on matchday five and have their sights set on entry into the UEFA Europa League. To stay third, they must win if Sevilla defeat Juventus, as the Spanish side have a superior head-to-head record. Previous meetings • Mönchengladbach overcame City 4-2 on aggregate en route to lifting the UEFA Cup in 1979. • Mick Channon (26) and Ewald Lienen (66) traded goals at Maine Road before Mönchengladbach's 3-1 second-leg victory. Christian Kulik (45), Hans-Günter Bruns (52) and Karl Del'Haye (71) all scored before Kazimierz Deyna's consolation (78) for City. • The lineups for the first leg in Manchester on 8 March 1979 were: City: Corrigan, Donachie, Watson, Booth, Power, Reid, Viljoen, Channon, Kidd, Hartford, Barnes. Mönchengladbach: Kneib, Hannes, Klinkhammer, Schäfer, Schäffer, Bruns, Kulik (Wohlers 75), Nielsen, Del'haye, Simonsen, Lienen (Gores 80). Match background Manchester City • City have reached the last 16 for the third season running. As in the previous two seasons, they are on course to qualify as group runners-up. • Their last-gasp home victory over Sevilla on matchday three was only their sixth in 16 home games in the UEFA Champions League since 2011. • Sergio Agüero has scored a late winner in City's last two games against Bundesliga opposition. He converted the 90th-minute penalty that downed Gladbach 2-1 in Germany on 30 September, having completed a memorable hat- trick against FC Bayern München with a 91st-minute strike in City's 3-2 comeback win in last season's group stage. • Their overall home record against German visitors is W4 D2 L1. • Joe Hart and Vincent Kompany played in City's first victory in Germany – 2-0 at FC Schalke 04 in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup group stage. Borussia Mönchengladbach • Mönchengladbach are unbeaten in three Group D matches (two draws, one win) and are now seeking their first goal away in this season's competition having lost at Sevilla (0-3) and drawn at Juventus (0-0). • Their 4-2 win over Sevilla last time out was their first in the European Cup since March 1978 and a 2-1 semi-final first-leg victory against Liverpool FC (2-4 aggregate). • The Bundesliga club's away record against English opposition is W1 D2 L2. • That solitary victory came on their most recent visit to England – a 3-2 success against Arsenal FC in the 1996/97 UEFA Cup first round (6-4 agg), featuring goals from Andrzej Juskowiak, Stefan Effenberg and Stephan Passlack. • Mönchengladbach lost two finals against Liverpool in the 1970s – the 1973 UEFA Cup final (0-3 a, 2-0 h) and the 1977 European Cup final (1-3 in Rome). • They also lost the first penalty shoot-out in European Cup history in the north-west of England, going down to Everton FC in the 1970/71 second round after a 2-2 aggregate draw. Coach and player links • Pellegrini's Málaga CF – featuring Willy Caballero and Martín Demichelis – lost 3-2 on aggregate to Borussia Dortmund in the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, conceding two added-time goals in the second leg in Germany. • Hart, Raheem Sterling and Fabian Delph played in England's 2-0 success over the Switzerland of Yann Sommer, Granit Xhaka and Josip Drmic in a UEFA EURO 2016 qualifier at Wembley on 8 September. • Gladbach's Swiss contingent previously suffered defeat against the Argentina of Pablo Zabaleta in the round of 16 of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.