| League position: | 3 | Home league form: | WWWW | Overall league form: | WLWWWWLL | Formation: | 3-4-3 |
| | Line-ups | Joe HART | 6½ | 1 | 7 | Sebastian MIELITZ | WILLIAN Borges | 6½ | 2 | 8 | Christian TRÄSCH | DANTE Bonfim | 6½ | 3 | 7½ | Konstantin RAUSCH | (f)Blaise MATUIDI | 7½ | 4 | 7 | Ilkay GÜNDOGAN | Gary CAHILL | 7 | 5 | 7 | Stefan REINARTZ | (p)THIAGO Emiliano SILVA | 6½ | 6 | 7 | Heiko WESTERMANN(c) | ISCO | 7 | 7 | 6½ | Jefferson FARFÁN | Lukas PODOLSKI | 7 | 8 | 7 | Facundo COSTA | Ezequiel LAVEZZI | 7½ | 9 | 7½ | Luuk DE JONG(p) | Andrea PIRLO | 6 | 10 | 5½ | HUGO Miguel ALMEIDA(f) | (c)Valon BEHRAMI | 7 | 11 | 6½ | Johan ELMANDER | Mr D Spears-Gellar | Manager | | Serge GNABRY | | 12 | | Felix KROOS | Antonio RÜDIGER | | 13 | | Logan BAILLY | Alessio CERCI | | 14 | | Peter CROUCH | Domenico BERARDI | | 15 | | Ziguy BADIBANGA | Adrien RABIOT | | 16 | | John FLANAGAN |
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| | | League position: | 5 | Away league form: | WWXW | Overall league form: | WWWWXWWW | Formation: | 4-3-3 |
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