Ortega Moreno to make competitive debut in Dortmund clash

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·25 October 2022

Ortega Moreno to make competitive debut in Dortmund clash

Pep Guardiola has made six changes for Tuesday night's UEFA Champions League clash with Borussia Dortmund.

Goalkeeper Stefan Ortega Moreno makes his competitive debut for the Club, coming in for Ederson. Ortega Moreno had previously spent his entire career in Germany before moving to England in the summer.

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John Stones and Nathan Ake replace Manuel Akanji and Aymeric Laporte at the back, with Ilkay Gundogan and Phil Foden coming in for Kevin De Bruyne and Bernardo Silva in midfield.

Julian Alvarez takes the spot of Jack Grealish in the forward line.

Team news

CITY XI: Ortega Moreno, Stones, Dias, Ake, Cancelo, Rodrigo, Gundogan (c), Foden, Mahrez, Alvarez, Haaland

Subs: Ederson, Carson, Grealish, Laporte, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Akanji, Palmer, Lewis, Wilson-Esbrand

WATCH: Dortmund v City: Summit battle awaits

Tactics

Ortega Moreno will be protected by a defensive line of John Stones, Ruben Dias, Nathan Ake and Joao Cancelo with Stones likely to be on the right and Cancelo on the left.

Rodrigo sits at the base of the midfield, with Ilkay Gundogan to his right and Phil Foden likely to be flanking him to the left.

On the wings, Riyad Mahrez will play down the right and Julian Alvarez will play on the left. Erling Haaland remains the focal point through the middle.

WATCH: Guardiola: I did not expect Haaland to be so good inside the box!

Match stats

Borussia Dortmund have won just one of their five UEFA Champions League matches against Manchester City (D1 L3), a 1-0 home win in the 2012-13 group stage.
City have won our last three UEFA Champions League games against Borussia Dortmund, winning every game 2-1. No side has ever beaten another by the same score in four consecutive games in the Champions League (Bayern Munich beat Arsenal 5-1 three in a row between 2015 and 2017).
City have won 14 of our last 16 UEFA Champions League matches against German teams (D1 L1) but did lose their last away game there 2-1 against RB Leipzig. City have won 16 games against German opponents in the competition, six more than against any other nation.
Borussia Dortmund have only lost two of their last 14 home games in the UEFA Champions League (W8 D4), although one of those defeats came against Manchester City in April 2021 (1-2 in the quarter-final second leg).
Across the first four matchdays in the UEFA Champions League this season, no player has been directly involved in more goals than Manchester City’s Erling Haaland (five goals) or Borussia Dortmund’s Jude Bellingham (four goals, one assist).