Manchester City Women vs Paris Saint-Germain Women - prediction, team news, lineups

Manchester City Women volition resume their Women's Champions League run erstwhile they play big to Paris Saint-Germain Women connected Thursday. 

The reigning Women's Super League champions person taken conscionable 2 points from their archetypal 2 league signifier games, portion the French giants person 4 points to their name. 

Match preview

As a effect of their WSL rubric triumph past term, Man City are backmost participating successful the Women's Champions League aft a one-year lack from the competition.

Man City's erstwhile acquisition of the UWCL main gully came successful a group-stage format successful 2024-25, erstwhile they reached the knockout rounds earlier being beaten by Chelsea successful the quarter-finals.

They recorded 5 victories successful their six radical signifier games 2 years ago, but they are inactive waiting for their archetypal European of the existent run aft opening the league signifier with back-to-back draws.

Andree Jeglertz's broadside fought backmost from 2 goals down to rescue a constituent against Bayern Munich connected matchday one, earlier they played retired a 1-1 gully successful their location gathering with Real Madrid astatine the commencement of the month, leaving them successful 11th spot successful the standings.

Those 2 draws person helped Man City commencement the play with a nine-game unbeaten tally successful each competitions (W6, D3).

Despite preserving that grounds successful Sunday's clash against rivals Manchester United, they would person been disappointed to person conceded a precocious equaliser successful the 1-1 draw, particularly arsenic it ended their 100% commencement to the WSL season.

As Man City crook their absorption to Thursday's fixture, they volition gully inspiration from the information they person scored astatine slightest 3 goals successful 4 of their 5 location games this season, though they are inactive waiting for their archetypal location cleanable expanse of the campaign.

PSG, meanwhile, are looking to scope the UWCL knockout rounds for the archetypal clip since making a tally to the semi-finals successful 2023-24.

After being knocked retired successful qualifying successful 2024-25, the French giants endured a pugnacious clip of it successful past season's league phase, finishing successful 17th spot with conscionable 2 points to their name.

With that successful mind, PSG person already made advancement by taking 4 points from their archetypal 2 matches of the existent league phase, which started with a hard-fought 1-1 gully against Real Madrid.

Paulo Cesar's charges followed that effect with an emphatic 5-0 location triumph implicit Belgian broadside Leuven, putting them wrong the apical 4 connected extremity difference. 

Since returning to home action, PSG person recorded 2 victories implicit Fleury 91 and Montpellier, connected either broadside of a dense 4-0 decision to reigning French and European champions Lyon.

PSG volition present question to Manchester with hopes of extending their unbeaten distant record, having won 2 and drawn 2 of their 4 competitory matches connected their travels.

However, hopes of a triumph whitethorn beryllium tempered by the information they person drawn 1 and mislaid 3 of their erstwhile 4 matches successful England. 

Manchester City Women Women's Champions League form:

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Paris Saint-Germain Women Women's Champions League form:

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Team News

The hosts stay without Vivianne Miedema, who is yet to diagnostic this word owed to a genu injury.

Man City volition besides person to measure Risa Shimizu, Sam Coffey and Beth Mead up of the European fixture.

Sydney Lohmann could get much minutes disconnected the seat aft returning from wounded to marque her archetypal quality of the play arsenic a precocious substitute successful the Manchester derby. 

As for PSG, Anais Ebayilin volition apt beryllium retired for the remainder of the play aft sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament wounded earlier this month.

Rasheedat Ajibade is besides unavailable for a sizeable play aft suffering a fibula fracture portion connected planetary work with Nigeria. 

Romee Leuchter made her instrumentality from a three-match wounded lack with a substitute quality against Montpellier, with the guardant present pushing to commencement astatine the Joie Stadium connected Thursday. 

Manchester City Women imaginable starting lineup:

Yamashita; Wamser, Rose, Greenwood, Charles; Blindkilde, Hasegawa; Fowler, Fujino, Hemp; Shaw

Paris Saint-Germain Women imaginable starting lineup:

Szperkowska; Isabela, Samoura, Dudek, Elimbi; Jourede, Osteras, Echegini; Feller, Karchaoui, Leuchter

We say: Manchester City Women 3-1 Paris Saint-Germain Women

Man City are yet to suffer this season, and aft winning 4 of their archetypal 5 location matches, we deliberation they volition usage the backing of the enactment astatine the Joie Stadium to assertion their archetypal triumph successful the league phase, particularly arsenic PSG thin to conflict connected their trips to England. 

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