Bayern Munich taunts are even more laughable ahead of Man City tie

Manchester City were hoping to kick off a brand new era under Manuel Pellegrini back in 2013 when Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich brought them back down to earth.

The Bundesliga champions coasted to a 3-1 win at the Etihad and Thomas Muller afterwards likened the movement of City's forwards off the ball to being sat in deckchairs, adding that no forward was allowed to do that for Bayern or Germany.

City would beat Bayern in the reverse fixture that season, but the shine was taken off that by an embarrassing gaffe from Pellegrini whereby he didn't realise the Blues needed to score an extra goal to top the group ahead of their rivals and so took David Silva off and left Sergio Aguero on the bench; City drew Barcelona in the round of 16 and were eliminated, while Bayern made the semi-finals before Guardiola produced "the biggest ****-up of my life as a coach" as Real Madrid beat them 4-0 at the Allianz.

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Despite that defeat, Bayern had shown the superiority over City on the pitch that their hierarchy had no trouble talking up off it. The German club were one of the biggest critics of City's spending and arrival at the best table in European football, claiming the moral high ground.

Oliver Kahn spoke seemingly without irony in 2020 after the Court of Arbitration for Sport had overturned City's Champions League ban that UEFA had tried to impose, the incoming chief executive urging UEFA to take Financial Fair Play more seriously because "the same clubs winning the Champions League or winning, for example, the Bundesliga or Premier League or other leagues, I think it’s getting a little bit boring".

Bayern honorary president Uli Hoeness, who