Atalanta-Man City, the official formations: out Muriel and Aguero, there is Ilicic | First page

Gasperini's Atalanta takes to the field tonight at San Siro against Pep Guardiola's Manchester City. The Nerazzurri, at 0 points in Group C, face the first strength of the group, at 9 in the standings. Atalanta in this Champions League have lost 5-1 against City, 2-1 at home with Shakhtar and 4-0 away with Dinamo Zagreb: they can hope to go to the knockout stages or round of the Europa League with only one result positive today. Guardiola's team is undefeated and with a victory would pass the pass for the round of 16 of the competition. In Atalanta outside Duvan Zapata and Robin Gosens; in the guests, instead, Zinchenko, Rodri, Laporte, David Silva and Sane are absent. Belarusian referee Aleksey Kulbakov leads the challenge.OFFICIAL FORMATIONS:

ATALANTA – Gollini; Toloi, Palomino, Djimsiti; Hateboer, de Roon, Freuler, Chestnuts; Gomez, Pasalic; Ilicic.

MANCHESTER CITY – Ederson; Cancelo, Otamendi, Fernandinho, Mendy; Gundogan, de Bruyne; Mahrez, Bernardo Silva, Sterling; Jesus.

STATISTICS AND PREVIOUS – These are the statistics provided by Opta for the match: the only precedent between Atalanta and Manchester City was last day with the Citizens winning 5-1 at Eitihad Stadium. Atalanta faced only one English team in European competitions, winning 3-0 against Everton in the Europa League in September 2017. Atalanta have lost the three games of the Champions League this season and are the first Italian team to debut in the competition with three defeats. The last team to lose its first four games was Otelu Galati in the 2011/2012 season. Manchester City have won 10 of their last 12 games in the Champions League (1 P, 1 S), including the three of this season. No team was eliminated in the group stage after winning in the first three days. Atalanta is the team that has conceded the most goals in this Champions League season (11), in fact, only two teams have conceded more goals in the first three days: Slavia Prague (12) and Helsinborg (13). Raheem Sterling, of Manchester City, has had a role in 13 goals in his last 10 Champions League games (nine goals and four assists), although only one of these happened at home (against Schalke 04 in February).