That total takes us beyond the previous best by an English club, when Arsenal won 16 and drew eight matches between September 2004 and April 2009.
Our last defeat in a European match at the Etihad Stadium came way back in September 2018, when Lyon were the visitors for a group stage fixture.
Since then, we have won 23 and drawn two of our Champions League games in Manchester.
Match report | City 3-0 Bayern Munich
We still have a long way to go to match the overall record set by Barcelona.
The Catalan club went 38 matches unbeaten at the Camp Nou between September 2013 and November 2020, winning 34 of those.
Our new English record wasn’t the only notable landmark achieved during Tuesday’s pulsating victory.
Erling Haaland scored City’s third, notching his 45th goal of the campaign.
That means he now has more than any other Premier League player across all competitions in a single season, beating the previous record jointly held by Ruud van Nistelrooy (2002/03) and Mo Salah (2017/18).
The win was Bayern Munich’s joint-biggest margin of defeat against an English side in all European competition, level with a 3-0 loss against Liverpool in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in March 1971.
It wasn’t the dominant display we’re used to seeing from Pep Guardiola‘s side in terms of possession, with Bayern Munich having 56% of the ball.
However, our nine shots on target were the most the German champions have conceded in this competition for six years since their quarter-final tie with Real Madrid in 2016/17.
Our xG of 1.89 also far outshone our visitors, who mustered just 0.88 from 12 total shots.
Rodrigo rising
The Spaniard doesn’t score tap ins. Seven of his 16 City goals have come from outside the box and last night’s was perhaps the pick of the lot.
Not only for the unstoppable shot, but for the City move that created the opening.
The above graphic shows how it started with the scorer on the edge of his own box before being worked out left, then right again and eventually to our No.16.
He was brilliant all evening, completing 50 of his 61 passes while progressing the ball into the final third on six occasions.
He also won eight of his ten ground duels and completed three tackles.
Back line brilliance
Pep Guardiola was full of praise for all five players who made up the backline out of possession.
“Ruben [Dias] in the last month, two months has been amazing but Manu [Akanji], John [Stones], Nathan [Ake] were amazing,” he said.
“To handle Sane and Coman, you have to be defensively really, really good in duels because all the time they have incredible players up front in the pockets and they have threats in behind.
“They are so difficult to read. But in general they behaved really, really, really well.”
As the above graphic shows, Stones moved between midfield and defence depending on where the ball was on the pitch and City’s momentum at the time.
That left Ake, Dias and Akanji as a spread back three on occasion, with Ake and Akanji more than comfortable in wide areas.
Four of Bayern’s 12 shots were saved brilliantly by Ederson with another five being blocked by defenders willing to put their body on the line.
The game leader in that metric was Dias with three, while Akanji made seven tackles - a total more than anyone else.
2022/23 Champions League stats so far
Erling Haaland is still the competition’s top scorer with 11 strikes. He is ahead of Salah on eight and Kylian Mbappe on seven with Vinicius Junior and Joao Mario (six each) the best players that are still active in the competition.
Haaland has also had the most attempts on target with 18.
Kevin De Bruyne‘s four assists this season puts him joint-second in the rankings behind Joao Cancelo on five.
City’s 25 goals is the joint-most in the tournament so far, with Napoli also on that sum. Our average possession is 61.9%, the second best behind Barcelona on 62.5.
However, our passing accuracy of 90.9% is the highest.
