Manchester City, playing in red and black, are dominating the ball as you'd expect and Kevin de Bruyne's cross is put behind.

City's corner comes to nothing.

Copenhagen's Marko Stamenic clatters Jack Grealish and high-fives a team-mate.

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We are under way in the Danish capital.

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Copenhagen are in the bottom half of the Danish top flight with only five wins from 12 games.

They are one of the only two teams yet to score in the Champions League this seaosn.

Jacob Neestrup, 34, has only been their manager for three weeks, having replaced the sacked Jess Thorup last month.

No manager under 40 has ever beaten Pep Guardiola in the Champions League (D1 L15).

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola: "We are not going to underestimate them [Copenhagen]. It will be no exception.

"If it does not go well, it will not be because we do not play well but because Copenhagen play well.

"We want to get into the last 16 and this is what we will try to do... We have the opportunity to close qualification. In the last games we played very well. I'm more than satisfied so far."

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Copenhagen winger Viktor Claesson says Manchester City are the best team he has ever played against.

City beat the Danes 5-0 last week in Manchester.

Sweden international Claesson said: "They are the best team in the world - the best I have met by far.

"For me they are the Champions League favourites. They have been for the last couple of years but haven't succeeded in the final part.

"Now they have a really good striker as well. Before they had good players with the touches, no mistakes, simple play, but now they also have the killer in the box.

"Whenever it comes into the box he just scores all the time."

Manchester City will book their place in the knockout stages nice and early - after just four games - if they win today.

City have won all three games and Sevilla, in third place, are only on one point from three games.

"He is one of the best. I have many very, very good strikers and Erling is one of them," City boss Pep Guardiola said yesterday about Erling Haaland.

"He understands quickly and he is a nice guy. He is able to do this for the team, but we need to work together and that has happened. I speak a lot about him, but sometimes I should not have to because the numbers, they do this."

Copenhagen have only lost one of their 13 home Champions League group games. However, that defeat was by Real Madrid in December 2013 - and they went on to win the competition that season.

Their past three home matches in the Champions League have finished goalless, the joint-longest such run in the competition (also Porto between April and November 2004).

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It's a big night for Juventus in the Champions League as they look to stay in the qualification hunt.

Their win over tonight's opponents Maccabi Haifa was their first in the Champions League this season.

They trail PSG and Benfica - who meet later - by four points.

"It will be a complicated game because they are a team that showed some good football here at the Allianz Stadium last week," said Juve boss Max Allegri.

"The details will make the difference. I've asked the players to be more compact, to eliminate the mistakes we have been making, mistakes a team that aims to win must not make.

"We must be aware of the importance of this game and go out on the pitch and do our best from every point of view."

Since the start of last season, City have lost two of their four away games in the group stage of the Champions League (2-0 at Paris St-Germain and 2-1 at Leipzig), after previously going unbeaten between the 2018-19 and 2020-21 campaigns.

One of football's great stadiums.

Copenhagen last hosted Manchester City in the 2008-09 Uefa Cup - the match finish 2-2, with Nedum Onuoha and Stephen Ireland scoring for the visitors.

City beat Copenhagen 5-0 at home last week. Their best combined record against an opponent in a Champions League campaign is 9-0 versus Shakhtar Donetsk in 2018-19 (3-0 away, 6-0 home).

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Manchester City became more or less certain of reaching the knockout phase once they had won their first two matches and can seal qualification tonight in Copenhagen. City's chance of winning Group G has increased from a pre-tournament 78% to 94% according to Gracenote's Euro Club Index., external

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City are in the middle of a crazy run of fixtures that sees them play five games in 14 days. The past three performances have been both impressive and commanding - all wins and 15 goals in the process.

Pep Guardiola has world-class players available to him in every position. He also has a plethora of academy graduates available to get some game time. It is fabulous to see so many making appearances in both the Premier League and the Champions League.

We face Copenhagen in Denmark later and I hope Pep uses the opportunity to continue to trust a number of those youngsters and rotates his team.

After all, in the return fixture last week there were four academy graduates in the squad. Manchester-born Cole Palmer and Rico Lewis - both of whom joined City as eight-year-olds - and 19-year-old Josh Wilson Esbrand got minutes. In addition, already established first-teamer Phil Foden was on the bench.

There are so many positives so early in the season.

We celebrated 'The Centurions' in 2018. We celebrated 'The Fourmidables' in 2020. Is it possible we may be celebrating 'The Undefeatables' in 2023? For a team having to play every three days, surely not?

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Copenhagen make three changes from the side that drew 1-1 against Danish Superliga leaders Nordsjaelland on Saturday.

Nicolai Boilesen, Victor Kristiansen and Valdemar Lund Jensen all come in for the hosts. Isak Bergmann Johannesson and Christian Sorensen drop to the bench and Denis Vavro misses out.

Copenhagen XI: Grabara, Jelert, Boilesen, Khocholava, Lund Jensen, Stamenic, Lerager, Claesson, Kristiansen, Haraldsson, Daramy.

Subs: Diks, Sorensen, Johannesson, Mukairu, Johnsson, Ankersen, Bardghji, Clem, Ryan.

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Erling Haaland is among five Manchester City changes from the side that started the 4-0 win over Southampton in the Premier League last weekend

Nathan Ake, Ruben Dias, Phil Foden and Bernardo Silva also make way as Aymeric Laporte, Sergio Gomez, Ilkay Gundogan, Jack Grealish and Julian Alvarez come in.

Man City XI: Ederson, Cancelo, Akanji, Laporte, Gomez, Rodrigo, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Mahrez, Grealish, Alvarez

Subs: Ortega, Carson, Dias, Ake, Haaland, Silva, Foden, Palmer, Lewis, Wilson-Esbrand