Celtic vs Manchester City Preview - 28 September 2016

Celtic

Manchester City

Kick Off at 18:45 (GMT) on 28th September, 2016
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This is a match in International - Champions League grp. C Match Day 2, Season 2016/2017

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Match facts

Celtic

Celtic and Manchester City have never faced off in European competition before.
Manchester City will be the second English side Celtic have faced in the Champions League having faced City's rivals Manchester United in the Group Stages in 2006/07 and 2008/09 (W1 D1 L2).
Celtic will come up against Pep Guardiola for the first time in Europe; despite having faced Barcelona nine times in the Champions League they did not meet during Guardiola's tenure.
Brendan Rodgers has won just one of his seven Champions League games, with his side scoring five and conceding 16 in those seven matches.
Celtic have lost three of their last four home games in the Champions League.
Two of Celtic's last three home Champions League goals have come from the penalty spot.

Manchester City

Manchester City have only tasted defeat once in their last five Champions League group games played away from home (W3 D1).
Manchester City have won seven of their last nine Champions League Group Stage games, scoring 20 times in those seven victories.
This is Manchester City's sixth consecutive Champions League participation. They have made it past the Last 16 only once, it was in 2015/16 when they reached the semi-finals (knocked out by Real Madrid).
The Citizens have lost just three times at home in the Group Stages of the Champions League (W8 D5), scoring in every one of those matches.
Fernandinho has been directly involved in City's last three away goals in the Champions League (one scored and two assisted).
Sergio Aguero has recorded hat-tricks in his two Champions League appearances this season (including qualifiers).

Predictions

Anything apart from an easy City win would be one of the biggest shocks of the season here, with Pep Guardiola's men cruising through their first 10 matches of the campaign by winning every single one of them.

Celtic may be comfortably top of the Scottish Premier League, but this is a totally different challenge and they will do well to avoid an embarrassingly heavy loss.

City to win by a few clear goals.

Final Score – 0 : 3

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