This will be Zinedine Zidane’s 50th game as a manager in the UEFA Champions League. The Real Madrid boss has won 30 of his first 49, while the only manager to have won more through their first 50 games in the competition is Josef Heynckes (32).
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Casemiro for Real in the league and UCL this season:
◉ Most tackles
◉ Most duels won
◉ Most interceptions
Fabinho for Liverpool in the league and UCL this season:
◉ Most tackles
◉ Most clearances
◉ Most interceptions
Two Brazilian brick walls.
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1 - Real Madrid have not played a Champions League game without both Raphael Varane and Sergio Ramos since December 2018 against CSKA Moscow (0-3 defeat). This is the only game played without at least one of the 2 defenders in the UCL since 2016.
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The last time Real Madrid and Liverpool met in the UCL was the 2018 final at the NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kyiv.
Three years later, Liverpool are looking to get their revenge by knocking Madrid out of the competition.
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BREAKING: Bayern Munich confirm Serge Gnabry has tested positive for COVID-19.
They play PSG in their Champions League quarterfinal on Wednesday.
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Erling Haaland in the UCL this season:
vs. Lazio
vs. Zenit
vs. Club Brugge
vs. Club Brugge
vs. Sevilla
vs. Sevilla
He’ll be looking to join an exclusive club tonight against Man City. 
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Man City XI: Ederson; Walker, Stones, Dias, Cancelo; Rodri, De Bruyne, Gündoğan; Mahrez, Bernardo, Foden.
Dortmund XI: Hitz; Morey, Hummels, Akanji, Guerreiro; Can, Dahoud, Bellingham; Reus, Knauff, Haaland.
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Real Madrid XI: Courtois; Vázquez, Militão, Nacho, Mendy; Casemiro, Modrić, Kroos; Asensio, Vinícius, Benzema.
Liverpool XI: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Phillips, Kabak, Robertson; Fabinho, Wijnaldum, Keïta; Salah, Mané, Jota.
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OFFICIAL: Jadon Sancho is not in the Borussia Dortmund squad to face Manchester City.
Injury ruins an Etihad return.
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İlkay Gündoğan has scored more goals for Man City this season (16) than he managed during his entire BVB career (15).
He faces his former club as a completely different player.
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60 - Including finals, this will be Pep Guardiola’s 60th game as a manager in the knockout stages of the Champions League – only Carlo Ancelotti has managed more (62), although Guardiola already has the most knockout stage victories (31) in the competition.
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5 - Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp has won each of his last five games at the quarter-final stage of the Champions League, including all four of his games at this stage while in charge of the Reds (two versus Manchester City in 2017-18 and FC Porto in 2019-20)
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17y 281d - Borussia Dortmund’s Jude Bellingham is the second youngest player to start a Champions League quarter-final (17 years, 281 days), behind only Bojan in April 2008 for Barcelona vs FC Schalke 04 (17 years, 217 days).
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Jude Bellingham has made more tackles (20) and won more duels (55) than any other player left in the Champions League this season.
The second-youngest player in UCL history to start a quarter-final. 
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19-year-old Ansgar Knauff is making his first-ever Champions League start against Man City this evening.
BVB trusting in their youth.
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Dortmund winger Ansgar Knauff has been handed the first start of his senior career in a UCL quarterfinal.
He turned 19 in January and has only played 44 minutes for the first team so far 
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In the last five seasons, Real Madrid have only won 36% of their Champions League games without Sergio Ramos, compared to 72% of their games with him 
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19 | GOAL: Manchester City 1-0 Borussia Dortmund (De Bruyne)
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