Olympiacos will for a moment be the house’s victory in Group C by welcoming the leaders of the Manchester City segment in Greece.
Olympiacos will for a moment be the house’s victory in Group C by welcoming the leaders of the Manchester City segment in Piraeus.
The Greek team is third in the standings with 3 problems and aims to turn it around City, who won 3-0 in the opposing match in Manchester thanks to the goals of Ferron Torres (12) – who has scored the signing of the summer in all 3 UEFA Champions League matches this season: Gabriel Jesus (81) and Joel Cancelo (90).
This win over Olympiacos has earned him this season 3 of UEFA Champions League victories against City, which is 3 numbers ahead of second-placed Porto, and travels to Greece knowing that a fourth good fortune would verify his position in the 16-game circular with two games saved.
Form guide
The Greek club started the segment with a 1-0 win over Marseille in Piraeus, those were their only problems after the next defeats in Porto (0-2) and City.
Olympiacos is at the level of organization for the twentieth time and in 2019/20 finished third in their segment, long-running champions Bayern Munich and Tottenham Hotspur, scoring 4 points to take down a striker from Crvena zvezda.
Pedro Martins’ appearance then claimed a remarkable victory over Arsenal in the 16th circular of the UEFA Europa League, advancing to home goals after a 2–2 (0-1am, 2-1 a) draw, but lost to English club in the eighth round, losing the Lobos (1-1am, 0-1 a).
Olympiacos has played no less than six matches against Premier League war games in 2019/20, following a 2–2 home draw and a 4–2 away defeat, in which they had led 2-0, against Tottenham in UEFA. In the Champions League organizing phase, they won that notorious good fortune by knockout against Arsenal before being eliminated through the Wolves.
Olympiacos’ record for English is W7 D5 L5. They have won one of their last five matches against Premier League clubs in Greece (D2 L2).
Olympiacos has lost two of their last 16 European home games, winning ten.
Piraeus club won 4 UEFA Champions League play-off matches in 4 by beating Cypriot club Omonoia this season (2-0pm, 0-0 a). ).
These effects prolonged Olympiacos’ unbeathed streak in the European qualifying stage to 18 games (F14 D4), at home and away, since the 1-0 loss to Hapoel Beer-Sheva in the 3rd qualifying stage of the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League.
Greek champion for the 45th time in 2019/20, his first name since 2017, Olympiacos lifted the Greek Cup for the 28th time to complete his 18th national double.
Manchester City scored 3 goals in their Group C victories, starting with a 3–1 home defeat to Porto before the 3-0 win in Marseille and at home against Olympiacos.
City finished moment in the 2019/20 Premier League, completing the 18th season with Liverpool after winning the name in each of the last two campaigns.
• Josep Guardiola’s have retired from the UEFA Champions League in the quarter-finals for the third consecutive season, losing 3–1 to Lyon in their unique match in Lisbon.
City finished first in their organization with 14 problems (G4 D2) before defeating Real Madrid in the last matches, winning 2-1 home and at home against 13-time European champions.
This is Cityzens’ 10th UEFA Champions League campaign; they have participated at an organizational level in each and every one of the seasons since 2011/12 and have reached the circular of 16 in seven successive campaigns.
City have scored goals in their last 16 UEFA Champions League matches; in more than two seasons, his record is 16 wins, 3 draws, 3 losses with 60 goals scored and 22 received.
Guardiola’s team has won 8 of their last 12 Home European matches (two draws and two losses), either defeats in England; The last away match they lost was at Shakhtar Donetsk (1-2) in the sixth round of the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League.
City’s functionality in the UEFA Champions League reached the semi-finals of 2015/16.
City’s only other matches against a Greek club before matchday three were in the 32nd final of the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League, when a 0-0 draw in the first leg at Aris Thessaloniki followed a victory by 3-0 at home at Manchester Stadium where Edin D’eko scored twice in the first 12 minutes and Yaya Touré added a third in the middle of the moment.
Links and • Bayern Munich in Guardiola have beaten Olympiacos twice (3-0 in Piraeus and 4-0 at home) in the organizing phase of the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League, with Kostas Fortounis replacing both matches.
Pedro Martins’ record as a coach against English clubs is now 1 win, 4 draws, four losses, the luck of this Arsenal victory in the 16th round circular of the UEFA Europa League last season.
• Has in England: Andreas Bouchalakis (ceded Nottingham Forest 2017/18) Hilal Soudani ((Nottingham Forest 2018/19) Yann M’Vila (loaned Sunderland 2015/16) Rúben Vinegar (Wolves 2017-20) José Holebas (Watford 2015) –20)
Pedro Martins trained Ederson at Rio Ave in 2014/15.
Guardiola coached Rafinha at Bayern from 2013 to 2016.
They played together: Ahmed Hassan and Ederson (Rio Ave 2012-15) P. and Reben Dias (Benfica B, 2015-17) José Holebas and Nathan Aké (Watford, 2015/16) R. re Semedo
Vinegar in Monaco between 2015 and 2017, when Mendy and Bernardo Silva were also in the books of Ligue 1.
International colleagues: José Sa, Reben Semedo and Raben Dias, Joel Cancelo, Bernardo Silva (Portugal)
Fernandinho and Rafinha played combined for Brazil between 2011 and 2017.
Olympiacos – The upcoming matches of Kostas Fortounis and Hilal Soudani at the UEFA interclub festival will be 50.
Olympiacos have won all seven home games without conceding in all competitions this season, keeping seven blanks at the start of a crusade for the first time since 1959/60, their first season in UEFA club competition. They won 1-0 at home. opposite Panathinaikos on Saturday.
Olympiacos recorded their first home win of the season on 8 November, a 2-0 win at OFI Crete with Ahmed Hassan and Giorgos Masouras.
Fortounis scored a winning goal in the minute on Saturday, Olympiacos’ 18th goal this season and the first in the first half.
Youssef El-Arabi is the most sensible scorer in the Greek Super League this season with five goals.
Strikers El-Arabi and Hassan have been marginalized by illness since 17 November, while Vasilis Sourlis has been absent since 11 November.
Mady Camara and Soudani returned to the game after illness on the third day; Ousseynou Ba had been absent due to a similar challenge since October 26, but an unused replacement opposed Panathinaikos.
Raben Vinegar has been breastfeeding an ankle since November 6.
José Holebas injured his thigh in a friendly against Atromitos on 13 November, but is now back in full training. Avraam Papadopoulos missed the friendly Atromitos and the Panathinaikos was hit by a groin problem.
• On November 19, Mathieu Valbuena suffered a left corva tendon injury that tossed him for up to 3 weeks.
Lazar Randjelovic made his foreign debut as an overstudy defeated in Serbia’s 5-0 UEFA Nations League win over Russia on 18 November.
Fortounis scored a goal and prepared the match for his 50th appearance abroad when Greece won 2-0 home against Moldova in the UEFA Nations League on 15 November.
Camara scored his first goal in Guinea’s 1-0 win over Chad in the 2021 African Cup of Nations qualifying on 11 November.
Olympiacos beat AEK Athens 1-0 in the Final of the Greek Cup postponed last season thanks to a goal from Randjelovic in the 9th minute, the last time they scored in the first half before Saturday.
Kostas Tzolakis, 17, who maintained the goal in the Greek Cup final, has extended his contract until 2024.
On 23 October, Semedo signed a new contract with Olympiacos, which is also valid until 2024.
The box at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium premiered on the foreign stop.
Manchester City – On 19 November, City announced that Josep Guardiola had signed a new two-year contract with the club, until 2023.
City has drawn 12 editions of their first eight Premier League matches from the Crusade (3 wins, 3 draws, 2 losses). On Saturday they were 2-0 at Tottenham.
1-0 home win over Arsenal on 17 October in Guardiola’s 500th place as a manager; he has now recorded 175 victories with City.
The Cityzens were defeated 5-2 at home via Leicester on 27 September, the first time they hit home goals since February 2003 against Arsenal.
It was also the first time a Guardiola-led team had scored five goals in a match in his 686th coaching match.
City, who has won the English League Cup in each of the last three seasons, will arrive at Arsenal in the quarter-finals on 22 December.
Riyad Mahrez scored in Algeria’s 2-2 draw with Zimbabwe on November 16 to verify their position at the 2021 CAF Africa Cup of Nations, and also hit a 3-1 home win against the same warring parties 4 days before.
A hat-trick from Ferran Torres gave Spain a 6-0 home win over Germany in the UEFA Nations League on 17 November, and Rodri also placed it when the home team reached next year’s final.
Also in the UEFA Nations League on 17 November, Dias scored his first two goals abroad, the winning moment at the last minute, while Portugal won 3–2 in Croatia.
Phil Foden scored two goals in England’s 4-0 win over Iceland in the UEFA Nations League on 18 November, his first goals.
Bernardo Silva won his 50th international match in Portugal’s 1-0 loss to France on 14 November.
Kevin De Bruyne scored his 20th goal in a 4-2 home win over Denmark on 18 November, which secured Belgium’s position in the UEFA Nations League final.
Sergio Agüero returned to action on October 17 after being absent since June 22 with a knee injury. The Argentine penalty opposed Porto on matchday one, its first goal since March 4; This 231-day hole between moves is the longest in Agero’s career.
He started the 1–1 draw at West Ham on 24 October, but retired at half-time due to a thigh injury and has not played since then, was an unused replacement at Tottenham on Saturday.
Raheem Sterling missed England’s recent international matches due to a calf problem, and returned as a replacement at the time of Saturday.
Benjamin Mendy (knee, absent since 3 October) and Fernandinho (leg, absent since 21 October) are left out.
Nathan Aké, whose third-day appearance is the first since 17 October, led by a hamr tendon injury five minutes from the Dutch 1–1 friendly against Spain on 11 November.