Copenhagen vs Man City – Champions League: Live rating and updates

Man City boss Pep Guardiola is within the constructing.

He’s sporting a black turtleneck jumper underneath a darkish blazer.

Grey swimsuit trousers spherical off the look. A beautiful combo.

Guardiola does appear to wash up effectively for Champions League video games.

One impediment for Copenhagen tonight might be an absence of minutes within the tank for a lot of of their gamers. That’s not excellent towards Man City!

Believe it or not, that is really their first sport since they certified from their Champions League group 9 weeks in the past.

The Danish Superliga will resume this week after the winter break.

This sport seems prefer it may go two methods, then. Copenhagen will both be match and raring to go or sluggish and straightforward to chop aside.

We shall see.

It’s a powerful beginning XI for this night’s hosts.

Goalkeeper Kamil Grabara, previously of Liverpool, begins between the sticks as does Mohamed Elyounoussi. Remember him?

Rasmus Hojlund’s brother, Oscar, is on the bench.

Rooney Bardghji, a rumoured Man United goal, is among the many subs.

I’ll allow you to be the decide of that!

All I’ll say is that this… eeesh.

Just as a fast reminder, listed below are the last-16 ties developing…

Porto vs Arsenal

Napoli vs Barcelona

PSG vs Real Sociedad

Inter Milan vs Atletico Madrid

PSV vs Borussia Dortmund

Lazio vs Bayern Munich

Copenhagen vs Manchester City

RB Leipzig vs Real Madrid

Wow. That’s such a powerful City aspect. The depth of expertise in there…

Pep Guardiola has shuffled his pack barely and made 4 modifications from the aspect that beat Everton 2-0 on the weekend.

Kevin De Bruyne and Jack Grealish each begin. For the latter, that is his first nod from the off since early January.

Bernardo Silva and Kyle Walker are additionally in.

Starting XI: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Dias, Ake, Rodri, De Bruyne, Silva, Foden, Grealish, Haaland

Subs: Ortega, Carson, Doku, Alvarez, Akanji, Nunes, Bobb, Wright, Susoho, Lewis

Copenhagen have already overwhelmed one Manchester aspect this season!

That got here by way of a 4-3 win at Parken. United have been later despatched packing.

Marcus Rashford was despatched off in that sport. As you’ll be able to see from the photograph, the ahead was dumbfounded by the controversial resolution.

Can the Danes pull off a shock double tonight?

Well, effectively, effectively… guess what’s again? Full marks to those that stated the Champions League! That’s proper, the last-16 formally will get underway.

It’s been precisely two months because the last spherical of group video games and now we get into the nitty-gritty of the competitors.

But who will take dwelling that jug-eared magnificence?

Manchester City are actually in competition to retain the trophy and tonight they journey to the capital of Denmark to tackle Copenhagen.

I can hardly name it a glamour tie, however hey, upsets are what this match is constructed on. Stay tuned proper right here for stay updates.