Before Man City and Bayern Munich meet for a seventh time in Europe's best club championship, UEFA Champions League at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday midnight let us look at statistics. Guardiola has won 54% of his games in the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League, winning 39 matches out of 72. Among those with more than 30 matches in the knock out stages (including finals), he has the best win percentage of any manager and is the only one to have won more than half of his games. Incidentally, the spoils have been shared across the previous six encounters, with three wins for each of the teams in the Champions League.

Pep Guardiola who will face his former side, where he spent three seasons as a head coach between June 2013 and June 2016, was never able to win the UEFA Champions League. Before taking up the position at Man City that summer he won the Bundesliga in all three seasons with Bayern. Pep has sweet memories of winning only two UCL trophies as a manager for Barcelona in 2008-09 and 2010-11.

Following the sacking of Julian Nagelsmann last month, Thomas Tuchel will take charge of Bayern in this game and come up against Guardiola for the 11th time as manager. It was Tuchel that outfoxed Guardiola in the 2021 UCL final, with his Chelsea side defeating Man City 1-0. Tuchel also knocked Guardiola’s Man City out of the FA Cup at the semi-final stage a month earlier – winning 1-0 at Wembley Stadium. These two met again in the Premier League in 2021-22, with Guardiola getting some sort of revenge with two 1-0 wins across the home and away fixtures that season.

One man that may cause the Premier League club problems is experienced Bayern forward Thomas Müller, who has ended on the winning side on 99 of his 140 appearances in the UEFA Champions League. Should he feature in a victory for Bayern Munich here, he’d be the third player with 100 wins in the competition along with Cristiano Ronaldo (115) and Iker Casillas (101), and the first to do so with a single club.