UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS City of Manchester Stadium - Manchester Tuesday 1 October 2019 Manchester City FC 21.00CET (20.00 local time) GNK Dinamo Zagreb Group C - Matchday 2 Last updated 16/08/2020 23:20CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Squad list 7 Head coach 9 Match officials 10 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 15 Competition facts 17 Team facts 18 Legend 20 1 Manchester City FC - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Tuesday 1 October 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Manchester City FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Manchester City FC have not played against a club from their opponents' country GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Arsenal FC - GNK Dinamo Özil 29, Alexis 24/11/2015 GS 3-0 London Zagreb Sánchez 33, 69 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Arsenal Pivarić 24, Fernandes 16/09/2015 GS 2-1 Zagreb FC 58; Walcott 79 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tottenham Hotspur - GNK Bent 30, 33, 70, 06/11/2008 GS 4-0 London Dinamo Zagreb Huddlestone 59 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Arsenal FC - GNK Dinamo 2-1 Ljungberg 78, Flamini 23/08/2006 QR3 London Zagreb agg: 5-1 82; Eduardo 12 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Arsenal Fàbregas 63, 78, Van 08/08/2006 QR3 0-3 Zagreb FC Persie 64 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Fulham FC - GNK Dinamo 2-1 Malbranque 89, Boa 14/11/2002 R2 London Zagreb agg: 5-1 Morte 90; Olić 51 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Fulham Boa Morte 36, Marlet 31/10/2002 R2 0-3 Zagreb FC 60, Hayles 78 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Prosinečki 87; GNK Dinamo Zagreb - 27/10/1999 GS1 1-2 Zagreb Beckham 32, Keane Manchester United FC 49 Manchester United FC - GNK 14/09/1999 GS1 0-0 Manchester Dinamo Zagreb UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers D. Šimić 58, GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Newcastle 2-2 Cvitanović 90; Asprilla 27/08/1997 2QR Zagreb United FC agg 3-4 (aet) 44 (P), Ketsbaia 119 ET 2 Manchester City FC - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Tuesday 1 October 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester UEFA Champions League Newcastle United FC - GNK Beresford 22, 76; 13/08/1997 2QR 2-1 Newcastle Dinamo Zagreb Cvitanović 52 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GNK Dinamo Zagreb 5 1 1 3 6 0 1 5 0 0 0 0 11 1 2 8 8 24 3 Manchester City FC - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Tuesday 1 October 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Match background Manchester City and Dinamo Zagreb both recorded emphatic victories on matchday one, although history suggests it is the English club who are more likely to make it two wins out of two when they meet at the City of Manchester Stadium. • While City were winning 3-0 at Shakhtar Donetsk last time out, making it eight wins in their last ten matches in the competition, Dinamo avoided matching the longest run for consecutive UEFA Champions League group stage defeats in considerable style. The Croatian champions beat debutants Atalanta 4-0 in Zagreb, their biggest win in the competition proper. • This is City's first fixture against a Croatian club; Dinamo, meanwhile, have beaten English opposition only once in UEFA competition, and have lost all but one of their six games in England. Form guide Manchester City • The 3-0 victory at Shakhtar made it 17 City goals in their last five UEFA Champions League matches. Since losing at home to Lyon on matchday one last season (1-2) their record is W8 D1 L1 with 32 goals scored and ten conceded. • In 2018/19, City recovered from that defeat at home to Lyon to finish first in Group F ahead of the French club, Shakhtar and Hoffenheim, picking up 13 points. They brushed aside Schalke 10-2 on aggregate in the last 16, but for the second year running lost to English opposition in the quarter-finals, Tottenham eliminating them on away goals after a dramatic 4-4 aggregate draw (0-1 a, 4-3 h). • Guardiola's side have won nine of their last 16 European matches, home and away – losing six. • City beat Shakhtar 6-0 at home on matchday four last season, their record win in UEFA competition, before quickly surpassing that with a 7-0 defeat of Schalke in the round of 16 second leg. They scored 20 goals in their five home games in 2018/19. • This is the Citizens' ninth UEFA Champions League campaign; they have been involved in the group stage every season since 2011/12 and have reached the round of 16 or better in the last six campaigns. • City's best UEFA Champions League performance was reaching the 2015/16 semi-finals. • Champions of England for the second season running and sixth overall – four of those titles having come in the last eight years – City also lifted the FA Cup and League Cup in 2018/19, becoming the first English club to win all three domestic trophies in one season. Dinamo • A Mislav Oršić hat-trick helped Dinamo to a 4-0 defeat of Atalanta in Zagreb in their first Group C game, making the 26-year-old the first player to hit three goals for a Croatian club in a UEFA Champions League group encounter. • That was just Dinamo's fifth win in the UEFA Champions League group stage in their 37th match (D5 L27); they suffered six defeats in their most recent participation, in 2016/17. They had lost 11 successive matches, and won only one of 27 (D2 L24) – a 2-1 defeat of Arsenal in Zagreb in September 2015 that ended a 16-year wait for a victory in the competition proper – before beating Atalanta. • Dinamo claimed their 13th Croatian league title in 14 seasons in 2018/19 – and 20th in all – but their UEFA Champions League campaign came to an early end with a play-off defeat against Young Boys. Moving into the UEFA Europa League, the Zagreb club finished first in their section before getting the better of Viktoria Plzeň in the round of 32, then bowing out after extra time against Benfica in the last 16 (1-0 h, 0-3 a). • Nenad Bjelica's side started this season's UEFA Champions League in the second qualifying round, easing past Georgia's Saburtalo 5-0 on aggregate (2-0 a, 3-0 h) before a 5-1 victory over two games against Ferencváros of Hungary (1-1 h, 4-0 a). They then overcame Rosenborg in the play-offs, winning 2-0 at home before a 1-1 draw in Norway. • Dinamo have won five of their last ten European away matches (D3 L2). • The Zagreb club's sole success against English opponents came in their most recent home match against Premier League visitors, that 2-1 defeat of Arsenal in the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League group stage. They lost the return 3-0 in north London, however, making it four successive away losses in England. Dinamo have conceded 13 goals in their six trips, scoring three, and avoided defeat only once – a 0-0 draw at Manchester United in the UEFA Champions League first group stage in September 1999. • This is Dinamo's seventh UEFA Champions League group campaign overall, and fifth in nine seasons. They have failed to qualify from the group stage in all six previous attempts. In fact, 2018/19 marked the first time in 14 UEFA club competition group stage campaigns – including eight in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League – that the 4 Manchester City FC - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Tuesday 1 October 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Croatian club had made it through to the next phase. Links and trivia • Have played in England: Kevin Théophile-Catherine (Cardiff 2013/14) Ivo Pinto (Norwich 2016–19) • Nikola Moro provided an assist in Croatia's 3-3 draw against England in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship on 24 June; Phil Foden played 90 minutes for England. Latest news Manchester City • Summer transfers In: Zack Steffen (Columbus Crew), Angeliño (PSV), Rodri (Atlético Madrid), João Cancelo (Juventus), Scott Carson (Derby County, loan), Pedro Porro (Girona) Out: Vincent Kompany (Anderlecht), Fabian Delph (Everton), Patrick Roberts (Norwich City, loan), Tom Dele-Bashiru (Watford), Zack Steffen (Fortuna Düsseldorf, loan), Philippe Sandler (Anderlecht, loan), Taylor Richards (Brighton), Douglas Luiz (Aston Villa), Yangel Herrera (Granada, loan), Lukas Nmecha (Wolfsburg, loan), Danilo (Juventus), Pedro Porro (Real Valladolid, loan), Eliaquim Mangala (Valencia), Jeremie Frimpong (Celtic), Lorenzo González (Málaga), Aleix García (Mouscron) • Nicolás Otamendi's next appearance in the UEFA Champions League, group stage to final, will be his 50th. • City have won their last four matches in all competitions, scoring 17 goals and conceding only one. They were 3-1 victors at Everton on Saturday. • Kevin De Bruyne has provided eight assists already in this season's Premier League.