Kelechi Iheanacho Starts On Bench Against PSG In Champions League

Published: April 06, 2016

Kelechi Iheanacho is in line to make his second appearance in the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday night when Manchester City tackle PSG at the Parc des Princes, Paris in the quarter-final, Game 1.

City coach Manuel Pellegrini has just announced his starting XI and the Nigeria national-teamer will start on the bench.

Ivory Coast international Wilfried Bony, who is ahead of Iheanacho in the pecking order of strikers, is among the seven substitutes.

Kelechi Iheanacho came off the bench in the 89th minute of The Citizens 3-1 win over Dynamo Kiev in the round of 16, first leg, while he failed to make the 18-man squad for the reverse fixture.

Man City XI: Hart, Sagna, Otamendi, Mangala, Clichy, Fernando, Fernandinho, Navas, Silva, De Bruyne, Aguero
Substitutes : Caballero, Zabaleta, Demichelis, Kolarov, Delph, Bony, Iheanacho

PSG XI: Trapp; Aurier, Thiago Silva, David Luiz, Maxwell; Rabiot, Motta, Matuidi; Di María, Ibrahimovic, Cavani

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