Bayern Munich v Manchester City: Champions League quarter-final, second leg – live

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First leg revisited. Here’s a reminder of how things panned out last week, for the immersive pleasure of City supporters and fans of the 17 other teams in the Bundesliga.

The German champions make two changes to the starting XI named at the Etihad last week. Joao Cancelo, on loan from City, and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting come in for Alphonso Davies and Serge Gnabry, who drop to the bench.

The English champions are in If It Ain’t Broke mode. Pep Guardiola selects all 11 players who started the first leg for City.

The teams

Bayern Munich: Sommer, Pavard, Upamecano, De Ligt, Cancelo, Kimmich, Goretzka, Sane, Musiala, Coman, Choupo-Moting.
Subs: Ulreich, Gnabry, Mane, Davies, Sarr, Blind, Muller, Gravenberch, Tel, Mazraoui, Stanisic, Ibrahomovic.

Manchester City: Ederson, Stones, Akanji, Dias, Ake, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Gundogan, Silva, Grealish, Haaland.
Subs: Ortega, Carson, Walker, Phillips, Laporte, Alvarez, Gomez, Mahrez, Perrone, Foden, Palmer, Lewis.

Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

Preamble

After routing Bayern Munich 3-0 at the Etihad last week, Manchester City are within touching distance of another semi-final with Real Madrid. So close. Almost there. City, who have won their last ten matches straight, scoring 37 goals in the process, are hot favourites to make it through tonight.

Bayern will nevertheless go into this evening’s match with some hope: similar deficits and worse have in recent years been recovered by the likes of Deportivo La Coruna (v Milan 2004), Barcelona (v Paris Saint-Germain 2017) and Liverpool (v Barcelona 2019). But not by Bayern, who have only retrieved a first-leg deficit of two goals once (v Porto in 2015) and failed on the single occasion they attempted to claw back three goals (v Barcelona in the very next round that year).

Neutrals will expect a procession for Pep’s men, then … though City fans, long accustomed to the strange things that happen to their team in this competition, will surely take nothing for granted just yet. Kick off is at 9pm in Munich, 8pm Mancunian Summer Time. It’s on!