Schalke vs Man City LIVE
Uefa Champions League 2018-19 | Round of 16, first leg
Venue: Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen
Kick-off: 8pm GMT, tonight
Manchester City continue to fight for silverware on four fronts this week as they return to Champions League knockout round action for the sixth successive season.
Man City's trip to Veltins-Arena, which comes after they topped a group containing Lyon, Shakhtar Donetsk and Hoffenheim, also takes place just four days before the small matter of a EFL Cup final date against Chelsea at Wembley.
Their opponents, Schalke, finished ahead of Galatasaray and Lokomotiv Moscow as the comfortable runners-up to FC Porto in a somewhat weak Group D, though are in the midst of a hugely disappointing domestic campaign.
Schalke vs Man City line-ups
Schalke XI: Fahrmann, Nastasic, Oczipka, Bruma, Sane, McKennie, Serdar, Bentaleb, Caligiuri, Uth, Kutucu
Man City XI: Ederson, Walker, Laporte, Otamendi, Fernandinho, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Silva, Bernardo, Sterling, Aguero
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Schalke vs Man City line-ups and team news
Schalke XI: Fahrmann, Nastasic, Oczipka, Bruma, Sane, McKennie, Serdar, Bentaleb, Caligiuri, Uth, Kutucu
Subs: Nubel, Rudy, Matondo, Kutucu, Burgstaller, Skrzybski, Harit
Man City XI: Ederson, Walker, Laporte, Otamendi, Fernandinho, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Silva, Bernardo, Sterling, Aguero
Subs: Muric, Danilo, Kompany, Sané, Mahrez, Zinchenko, Foden
Score prediction: Schalke 1-3 Man City
City are back on a roll after their rare blip at Newcastle and continue to hunt an unprecedented quadruple despite a brief scare at Rodney Parade.
Schalke have performed well below expectations this season and can only hope to keep this tie close and head to Etihad Stadium in three weeks' time with a shot at progressing.
They will surely have trouble stemming City's seemingly endless stream of goals
TV channel and live stream, and online coverage
The match will be televised live on BT Sport 2.
BT Sport subscribers will be able to stream the match online via the video player and the BT Sport app.
You can also follow all the action with Standard Sport's LIVE blog.
Head to Head history and results (h2h)
This will be the fourth time that these two teams have squared off throughout their respective histories.
They last met in the group stages of the Uefa Cup back in November 2008, when goals from Stephen Ireland and Benjani sealed a 2-0 victory for City in Gelsenkirchen and a place in the last 32.
Schalke and City also crossed paths in the Uefa Cup Winners' Cup semi-finals in 1970. On that occasion, the German outfit won the first leg 1-0 before being thrashed 5-1 by eventual competition winners City at Maine Road.
