Champions League: Manchester City sticks three to Bayern, concern around De Bruyne’s ankle

Manchester City beat Bayern Munich (3-0) in the Champions League quarter-final first leg. The Cityzens opened the scoring with a nice curling shot from Rodri’s left in the first half. Bernardo Silva then doubled the lead with a header 20 minutes from time before Haaland sealed the score in the 76th minute to deliver a deserved success for the Cityzens.

The English create the first chances by Haaland (14th and 22nd) but it still takes a magnificent save from Ruben Dias on a hit of she had to to prevent the Bavarians from taking the lead (26th).

A minute later, the Mancunians opened the scoring with a magnificent shot from the left of Rodri following hooking his opponent.

City keep pushing and Sommer must pull off a brilliant parry on a close range strike from Gundogan (34e).

Bayern are more pressing on the return from the locker room, in particular on three strikes from Sane repelled by Ederson (46e, 49e, 54e).

But City react and Sommer has to save the strike fromWhat before intervening on the resumption of Ruben Dias on the corner that follows (57th).

The Etihad then shudders when Kevin De Bruyne remains on the ground following a slip and leaves a few minutes later, hit in the ankle (68th).

However, this does not stop City’s forward march, which doubles the bet by Bernardo Silva of the head on a center ofErling Haaland (70e).

Skyblues make it 3-0 minutes later by the inevitable Haaland found by Stones and who crosses his shot from the right to deceive Sommer (76th). The Norwegian is the first major league player to be involved in 50 goals this season.

With this big victory (3-0), Manchester City took a good step towards qualifying for the semi-finals before the return match in Munich.

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