ETIHAD STADIUM, MANCHESTER — The final time Pep Guardiola confronted Thomas Tuchel within the Champions League, the German tactician had his quantity as Chelsea deservedly gained the 2020/21 ultimate 1-0 in Porto
A bit over 22 months later, they meet once more in Europe’s premier competitors. Guardiola’s Manchester Metropolis are in familiarly imposing kind for the season run-in, whereas the now ex-Chelsea boss Tuchel is on the brink of take cost of his fourth sport as Bayern Munich head coach.
Tuchel was parachuted right into a treble tilt after Julian Nagelsmann’s sacking, though a DFB-Pokal defeat to Freiburg final week downgraded these goals to a double bid.
Metropolis are nonetheless battling on three fronts, chasing leaders Arsenal within the Premier League and going through as much as an FA Cup semifinal towards Sheffield Untied 11 days from now. Nevertheless, it’s the one competitors that has continued to elude them all through the Guardiola period that appears like the largest prize of all.
The Sporting Information is following the match stay, offering rating updates and commentary beneath.
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Man Metropolis vs. Bayern Munich stay rating
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Lineups:
Man Metropolis (3-2-4-1): 31-Ederson (GK) — 25-Manuel Akanji, 3-Ruben Dias, 6-Nathan Ake — 5-John Stones, 16-Rodri — 20-Bernardo Silva, 17-Kevin De Bruyne, 8-Ilkay Gundogan, 10-Jack Grealish — 9-Erling Haaland
Bayern Munich (4-2-3-1): 27-Yann Sommer (GK) — 5-Benjamin Pavard, 2-Dayot Upamecano, 4-Matthijs De Ligt, 19-Alphonso Davies — 6-Joshua Kimmich, 8-Leon Goretzka — 11-KIngsley Coman, 42-Jamal Musiala, 10-Leroy Sane — 7-Serge Gnabry
Man Metropolis vs. Bayern Munich stay updates, highlights from the Champions League quarter ultimate
seventeenth minute: Bayern work it properly across the fringe of the Metropolis field, Musiala, who has been sometimes vivid within the opening exchanges, finds Sane, whose shot is blocked by Akanji.
fifteenth minute: A deal with may be the one methodology of scoring a purpose he hasn’t managed this season, come to consider it. Grealish flies into a fairly fruity deal with on Coman. The referee reveals lenience, maybe as a result of that is peak sliode deal with climate. It’s completely throwing it down.
14th minute: Davies hasn’t fairly bought a deal with on Silva’s dancing sneakers but. Bayern are unsettled down the facet and MY WORD, Sommer dallies on a backpass in his goalmouth, virtually letting Haaland deal with it into the online.
eleventh minute: Bayern work an assault to Davies about 25 yards out. His shot is fairly rank and skids effectively large. Tuchel applauds on the sideline. He’ll be fairly pleased with how his staff have began right here.
ninth minute: Kimmich, who can be out of the second leg if he will get booked tonight, flies in on Bernado Silva. He timed that effectively and needed to. Dicey.
seventh minute: Bernardo Silva scampers previous Alphonso Davies – he’s certainly one of soccer’s nice scamperers – and units the ball again to De Bruyne. It is a decent-ish cross however over Haaland and a bit too excessive for Gundogan, who heads over.
fifth minute: First slight sight of purpose for Haaland, who will get away from Upamecano. The angle is towards him and he fires over however that was sharp. An early warning for Bayern, not that it ought to come as an excessive amount of of a shock.
4th minute: Briefly seems like crossed wires for Akanji and Ederson on this barely new Metropolis defensive configuration, however the former passes to Dias underneath shut attendance from Sane and the hazard is cleared.
2nd minute: Stones clears his traces as Gnabry bursts into the Metropolis field. Curiously, the England defender appears to be enjoying in a traditional centre-back place, with Akanji exterior him at right-back.
1st minute: Bayern get us underway. Grealish will get the group on their ft with an early jaunt down the Bayern proper. He cuts inside and finds De Bruyne, who’s tackled by Sane doing the type of monitoring again that in all probability would have saved hm right here if he’d completed it a couple of years in the past.
4 minutes from kickoff: The groups are within the tunnel, right here they arrive…
10 minutes from kickoff: Not lengthy now and the noise is cranking up a bit. The travelling Bayern followers actually giving it some. The Metropolis followers alongside them reply in type with Blue Moon.
30 minutes from kickoff: The groups are going via their warmups. Tuchel finds himself within the barely uncommon place of taking on a facet which have performed eight and gained eight within the Champions League to date this season, the one staff to have completed so. It was home wobbles that price Julian Nagelsmann his job.
Heat-ups. Has stopped completely hosing it down.@sn_footballclub #MCIFCB #ChampionsLeague #UCL pic.twitter.com/99lrWlpCSA
— Dom Farrell (@DomFarrell1986) April 11, 2023
50 minutes from kickoff: Given the ample tempo and ability Bayern possess in large areas, it felt like there was a good likelihood Guardiola may flip to Kyle Walker. Nevertheless, John Stones retains his place after a collection of immaculate shows in a task Guardiola noticed the likes of Philipp Lahm, David Alaba and Joshua Kimmich pioneer throughout his time at Bayern. Manuel Akanji, Ruben Dias and Nathan Ake all begin in what is certainly Metropolis’s first-choice again three (or again 4) for the run-in.
1 hour 10 minutes from kickoff: And right here’ the Bayern line-up. Leroy Sane begins on his Etihad Stadium return. Joao Cancelo is on the bench.
𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐗𝐈 🆚 @ManCity
Our staff for tonight’s #UCL quarterfinal conflict ⚔️#packmas #MCIFCB pic.twitter.com/9Go7trQFgx
— FC Bayern Munich (@FCBayernEN) April 11, 2023
1 hour 15 minutes from kickoff: This is tonight’s Metropolis staff. John Stones is most popular to Kyle Walker on the right-hand facet of defence once more and Bernardo Silva will get the nod over Riyad Mahrez on the appropriate wing. However, by his personal requirements on massive Champions League nights, that is a really regular line-up from Pep Guardiola. The person’s dropping his edge.
#UCL 𝘛𝘌𝘈𝘔 𝘕𝘌𝘞𝘚 📋
XI | Ederson, Stones, Akanji, Dias, Ake, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Gundogan (C), Bernardo, Grealish, Haaland
SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Carson, Walker, Phillips, Laporte, Alvarez, Gomez, Mahrez, Perrone, Palmer, Lewis#ManCity pic.twitter.com/6WMVeqm5JI
— Manchester Metropolis (@ManCity) April 11, 2023
1 hour 25 minutes from kickoff: Spring may need sprung in most locations however the Manchester climate has unceremoniously put it again in its field right here. Metropolis have cancelled pre-match leisure exterior the bottom, whereas a deliberate tifo show from the 1894 Group earlier than the sport has been canned on security grounds. It will be attention-grabbing to see what kind of impression the circumstances have on the match. It is type of par for the course right here, thoughts. When Metropolis confronted PSG in a semifinal right here a few years in the past it snowed.
Beautiful night time for it ☔@sn_footballclub #MCIFCB #ChampionsLeague pic.twitter.com/Vzgf3KHoHE
— Dom Farrell (@DomFarrell1986) April 11, 2023
1 hour 40 minutes from kickoff: Guardiola vs Tuchel is barely the tip of the iceberg with regards to sub-plots and narratives on this one. Leroy Sane was a terrace hero at Metropolis and can return to Manchester for the primary time as a Bayern participant tonight. There’s seemingly extra likelihood of Sane beginning for the guests than Joao Cancelo, who sensationally moved to the Allianz Area from the Etihad Stadium in January. Ever since then, this tie type of felt prefer it was within the publish. Erling Haaland will hope to get the higher of a Bayern facet he was by no means capable of dethrone at Borussia Dortmund, whereas Sadio Mane has a doozy of a document towards Metropolis from his time with Southampton and Liverpool.
🫡 Sadio Mané has beforehand scored ten objectives throughout his 19 conferences with Manchester Metropolis while enjoying for Southampton and Liverpool, together with 4 objectives throughout his final three head-to-head matches. pic.twitter.com/V0G3FAYjMq
— Sporting Information Soccer Membership (@sn_footballclub) April 11, 2023
2 hours from kickoff: Whats up and welcome to the Sporting Information’ stay protection of tonight’s keenly-anticipated Champions League quarterfinal showdown between Manchester Metropolis and Bayern Munich.
Watch each purpose we have scored towards German opposition this season! 🇩🇪⏮️
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— Manchester Metropolis (@ManCity) April 11, 2023
Man Metropolis vs. Bayern Munich lineups, staff information
Erling Haaland made an excellent goalscoring return for Metropolis on Saturday of their 4-1 Premier League win away at Southampton, with the Norway celebrity bringing his season tally as much as 44 objectives throughout all competitions.
Phil Foden continues to be out of motion, following appendix surgical procedure and Guardiola has given the nod to Bernardo Silva over Riyad Mahrez on the appropriate wing.
Man Metropolis lineup (3-2-4-1): Ederson (GK) — Akanji, Dias, Ake — Stones, Rodri — Silva, De Bruyne, Gundogan, Grealish — Haaland
Manuel Neuer and Lucas Hernandez are the long-term absentees for Bayern with striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting additionally dominated out with a knee downside. Serge Gnarbry will lead the assault.
Metropolis loanee Joao Cancelo is on the bench towards his mum or dad membership alongside former Liverpool star Sadio Mane.
Bayern Munich lineup (4-2-3-1): Sommer (GK) — Pavard, Upamecano, De Ligt, Davies — Kimmich, Goretzka — Coman, Musiala, Sane — Gnabry
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The way to watch Man Metropolis vs. Bayern Munich
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Stan Sport
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Malaysia
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BT Sport 1
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USA
CBS, Univision, TUDN
Fubo, Paramount+, ViX+
UK: The match can be broadcast on BT Sport 1 and streamed on BT Sport platforms.
USA: This match can be televised on CBS (English) and on Univision and TUDN (Spanish), with every broadcast streamed on Fubo. Paramount+ can even carry the English-language stream for subscribers, as will ViX+ in Spanish.
Canada: Each Champions League sport streams stay on DAZN.
Australia: Each UEFA Champions League match streams ad-free on Stan Sport, stay and on demand.