Borussia Mönchengladbach bowed out of the UEFA Champions League after a 4-0 aggregate loss to Manchester City.

CONFIRMED line-ups

Man City: Ederson - Walker, Stones, Dias, Cancelo - Gündogan, Rodri, Silva - Mahrez, De Bruyne (c), Foden

Gladbach: Sommer - Lainer, Ginter, Elvedi, Bensebaini - Zakaria, Neuhaus - Hofmann, Stindl (c), Thuram – Embolo

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Thuram was unable to add to his two Champions League goals as Gladbach lost the home leg (in Budapest) 2-0, but if the Frenchman can put two past Real Madrid in 90 minutes - as he did in the groups - anything is possible. The Foals pipped Serie A leaders Inter Milan to the runners-up spot in Group B, after all, and are one of only five teams to inflict defeat on Hansi Flick's defending champions Bayern Munich. Indeed, they're the only one to beat the sextuple winners twice in Flick's 74 matches as coach. A first qualification for the Champions League knockout rounds is an achievement in itself for Gladbach, the Rhineland outfit participating in the tournament for only the third time. The last time Die Borussen lost a home leg of a UEFA tie, 1-0 to Fiorentina in the 2016/17 Europa League round of 32, they roared back to win 4-2 on the road. A repeat performance would do nicely, with a victory by three clear goals the objective. A second-half substitute in Friday's 3-1 loss to Augsburg, striker Breel Embolo is reinstated in attack in a bid to turn the tide. Left-back Ramy Bensebaini and midfielder Christoph Kramer trained with the team on Monday and have been past fit enough to be involved.

Pep Guardiola's Man City were enjoying a 22-match winning run in all competitions, before losing the Manchester derby 2-0 to city rivals United on 7 March. The runaway English Premier League leaders have since beaten Southampton 5-2 and Fulham 3-0, but have choked in previous knockout matches in the Champions League, bowing out to unfancied Lyon in last season's quarter-finals, for one. Of the lot, City's away-goals defeat to Monaco in their 2016/17 last-16 tie, which ended 6-6 on aggregate after they had won the first leg 5-3, should give Gladbach real cause for optimism. Former Werder Bremen and Wolfsburg midfielder Kevin De Bruyne was among the handful of regulars that started the Fulham game on the bench. Germany international Ilkay Gündogan, who made his name at Nuremberg and Borussia Dortmund, was another. Both do indeed start in the Hungarian capital Budapest, the neutral venue again for this second leg due to German government-enforced travel restrictions in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Match stats

• Gladbach have scored 16 goals to Man City's 15 in this season's Champions League. Only Bayern (22), Barcelona, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain (all 18) and Dortmund (17) have registered more.
• Lars Stindl tops the Gladbach scoring charts with 13 goals in 35 appearances in all competitions so far this term, as well as a team-high 12 assists.
• Alassane Plea has contributed a team-leading eight Champions League goals in 2020/21 (five goals, three assists).
• Guardiola - a three-time Bundesliga winner during his time in charge of Bayern - has a 44.4 percent win ratio in meetings with Gladbach. It's his worst return against any of the 26 German clubs he's faced as a coach (W4, D3, L2).
• Gündogan produced 16 goals and 18 assists in 152 Bundesliga appearances for Nuremberg and Dortmund.
• De Bruyne held the Bundesliga record for most single-season assists between May 2015 and June 2020, when Bayern's Thomas Müller set the new gold standard for goal provision (21).

CONFIRMED line-ups

Man City: Ederson - Walker, Stones, Dias, Cancelo - Gündogan, Rodri, Silva - Mahrez, De Bruyne (c), Foden
Subs: Steffen, Carson, Ake, Sterling, Jesus, Aguero, Zinchenko, Laporte, Torres, Mendy, Fernandinho, Garcia
Out: -
Coach: Pep Guardiola 

Gladbach: Sommer - Lainer, Ginter, Elvedi, Bensebaini - Zakaria, Neuhaus - Hofmann, Stindl (c), Thuram – Embolo
Subs: Sippel, Grün, Lang, Kramer, Herrmann, Wolf, Plea, Beyer, Traore, Wendt, Lazaro, Jantschke
Out: -
Coach: Marco Rose