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Monaco Target Comeback

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AS Monaco will fight to secure a quarter final ticket when they confront Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City on Wednesday night.
However, Manchester City will be looking to reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League for a second consecutive season today when take on Monaco at the Stade Louis II.
The two sides will face each other three weeks after their epic first leg encounter, which Man City won 5-3 at the Etihad.
Pep Guardiola will be taking charge of his 100th Champions League game this evening, and it is his record in the competition that will have played a big part in City appointing him in the summer.
After an end-to-end thriller in the first leg, tonight’s encounter between Monaco and Manchester City in this will equally be something to remember
Manchester City have won just one of their last seven away games in the Champions League, not including qualifying matches.

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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