We currently boast a 100% record in this season’s competition having won all six group matches and both legs of our Round of 16 tie with the Danish champions.
When combined with last term’s semi-final second leg demolition of Real Madrid and that unforgettable night against Inter in Istanbul, City have now been victorious in our last 10 outings in Europe’s elite club competition.
We are the first Premier League side ever to hit that figure, with only Real Madrid (2015) and Bayern Munich (2013, 2020) having done it previously.
It also stretches our unbeaten run in European competition to 22 matches, with 21 Champions League games and this season’s UEFA Super Cup accounting for that run.
Alongside that, we continue to extend our English record unbeaten home run in the Champions League, having not lost at the Etihad in our last 30 games.
Barcelona, who set the record at 38, are the only other side ever to have hit 30 matches.
One record we do possess outright is related to incredibly prolific nature in front of goal.
We are first side in major European competition history to score 3+ goals in nine consecutive home matches, a run which started with a 5-0 win over FC Copenhagen back in October 2022.
Erling Haaland has been responsible for many of those goals and has now scored as many career Champions League goals as Sergio Aguero. They have both hit 41 goals in the competition, with Haaland taking 42 fewer games to do so.
Since his debut in the competition in September 2019, he is the outright overall top scorer with 41 goals, one ahead of Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski.
Julian Alvarez has been involved in 11 goals in his last 10 Champions League appearances (seven goals, four assists), despite only starting three of those games.
Alvarez has now played 15 times in the competition without losing, the joint most of any player along with former Liverpool and Atletico Madrid man Florent Sinama-Pongolle.
dominance
Over the two legs against FC Copenhagen, we had 39 shots for an xG of 4.21 while our opponents had 15 attempts for an xG of 1.49.
We completed 1,532 passes across the 180 minutes, with 1,007 of those coming in Copenhagen’s half. That shows just how far back we pushed our opponents, who only completed a total of 461 passes in the entirety of the tie.
The stats for the home leg were less emphatic, with the hard work largely done in Denmark and in the first 10 minutes of the Etihad clash.
As is often the case, Ruben Dias completed the most passes in this week’s game with 126 while Mateo Kovacic, providing a similar function to that which Rodrigo usually does, was close behind on 121.
Champions League stats this season
No one has scored more goals than Erling Haaland in this year’s Champions League, with only Kylian Mbappe and Harry Kane able to match him on six.
Julian Alvarez is in the pack of players just behind that pair with five of his own.
Ruben Dias and Rodrigo are first and second respectively for passes completed, with Dias on 704 and Rodrigo on 593.
Our 24 goals so far is more than anyone else, with Real Madrid second best on 18.
We currently average 69.6% of possession, a whopping 8.8% better than Paris Saint-Germain in second.
