MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Pep Guardiola has never coached a European competition game below the Champions League level and on Tuesday leads Manchester City in it for the 100th time.

City hosts Bayer Leverkusen looking for a 14th straight win against German teams at home to extend a run that started before Guardiola’s arrival in 2016.

Guardiola has now doubled his tally of 50 Champions League games coaching Barcelona where he won two titles in four seasons. At Bayern Munich he coached 36 Champions League games in three seasons that all ended in the semifinals. City in the Guardiola era won one title and lost the 2021 final to Chelsea.

Also Tuesday, Barcelona returns to Chelsea where it famously — and notoriously for home fans — advanced to the final in 2009 in Guardiola’s debut season.

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