Manchester City — AEK Athens 5:1, 20 October: match result

match finished UEFA Champions League · Matchday 3 Tuesday 20 October · 19:00 UTC

Manchester City 10th · 6 pts WWLW

5 : 1 1st half 2:0

AEK Athens 29th · 3 pts LLLWW

Etihad Stadium · referee W. Delajod

Match predictionValue

Over 1.5 goals

88% · Over 2.5 goals in 2 of 3 Manchester City games

Prediction landed. We predicted “Over 1.5 goals”, and the match finished 5:1.

the market is chosen by our model: not always the obvious one, but a likely one

our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Manchester City 53% draw 21% AEK Athens 26%

The model was right

The most likely outcome was Manchester City win, and the match finished 5:1. Fans backed Manchester City win — they got it right.

fans 60 votes

Manchester City 68% draw 8% AEK Athens 24%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

E. Anderson 1-0 12'

P. Foden assist: R. Lewis 2-0 34'

A. Koita for R. Marin 46'

Zini for B. Varga 46'

S. Pilo assist: Zini 2-1 52'

R. Cherki assist: P. Foden 3-1 57'

J. Gvardiol 59'

R. McAidoo for F. Samba 62'

O. Zubkov for Joao Mario 63'

P. Foden assist: R. Lewis 4-1 65'

R. Ait-Nouri for E. Fernandez 72'

Vitor Reis for J. Gvardiol 72'

P. Foden assist: R. McAidoo 5-1 76'

K. Braithwaite for R. Dias 83'

M. Gacinovic for K. Arriaga 83'

M. Vitalis for L. Jovic 83'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Manchester City 4-2-3-1 4-4-2 AEK Athens

Gianluigi Donnarumma  
Rico Lewis  45 Abdukodir Khusanov  3 Rúben Dias  24 Joško Gvardiol  
Elliot Anderson  17 Enzo Fernández  
Phil Foden  10 Rayan Cherki  37 Allan  
Floyd Samba  

Luka Jović  19 Barnabás Varga  
Lovro Majer  16 Kervin Arriaga  18 Răzvan Marin  23 João Mário  
Lazaros Rota  2 Harold Moukoudi  44 Filipe Relvas  3 Stavros Pilios  
Alberto Brignoli  

Manchester City bench

32Ayyoub Bouaddi
9Erling Haaland
28Gerónimo Rulli
7Iliman Ndiaye
11Jérémy Doku
61Kaden Braithwaite
6Marc Guéhi
13Marcus Bettinelli
21Rayan Aït-Nouri
56Ryan McAidoo
22Vitor Reis

AEK Athens bench

11Aboubakary Koita
22Charalampos Lykogiannis
21Domagoj Vida
6Kaan Kairinen
41Marios Balamotis
8Mijat Gaćinović
27Milán Vitális
10Oleksandr Zubkov
20Petros Mantalos
90Zini

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

64%Possession36%

17Shots11

7Shots on target3

4Shots off target5

6Blocked shots3

13Shots inside box3

4Shots outside box8

127Attacks57

67Dangerous attacks18

8Corners3

0Offsides1

6Fouls10

1Yellow cards0

2Saves2

680Passes387

635Accurate passes346

10Free kicks6

11Throw-ins11

6Goal kicks3

0Penalties0

Manchester City

AEK AthensThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

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Manchester City and AEK Athens met on matchday 3 of the UEFA Champions League on 20 October at Etihad Stadium. Final score — 5:1.

Manchester City sit 10th on 6 points after 4 matches (3 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss), won 2 matches in a row. AEK Athens sit 29th on 3 points after 6 matches (2 wins, 1 draw, 3 losses), winless in 3 matches, 3 matches without conceding.