Man City vs Atletico Madrid LIVE: Champions League result, final score and reaction as De Bruyne nets winner
Manchester City 1-0 Atletico Madrid: Follow all the action as Pep Guardiola’s side take a quarter-final first-leg lead over Diego Simeone’s LaLiga champions
The Champions League returned on Tuesday night and Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, eventually broke down Atletico Madrid at the Etihad Stadium to take a 1-0 lead in the Champions League quarter-final first leg.
After being frustrated by the visitors for large swathes of the game, City finally made the breakthrough on 70 minutes as Phil Foden slipped in Kevin De Bruyne who finished expertly beyond Jan Oblak and gave them a lead to take into next week’s second leg at the Wanda Metropolitano.
Both Guardiola and opposite number Diego Simeone have faced heartache in the final of this competition with their current clubs, but City remain the favourites to go the distance this time - even if this is proving to be a huge test for the Cityzens in the last eight.
The winners of this tie will progress to face either Chelsea or Real Madrid in the semi-finals of the Champions League, following last month’s draw.
Follow all the reaction as Man City beat Atletico Madrid below:
Man City 1-0 Atletico Madrid
Massive.
Man City 1-0 Atletico Madrid
72 mins: Seismic goal in this tie. Will Atletico try and find a goal now? Or will they take a 1-0 defeat back to Spain?
GOAL! Man City 1-0 Atletico Madrid (De Bruyne, 70)
70 mins: Foden off the bench and he lays it on for De Bruyne!
The substitute makes an instant impact! Foden picks up the ball 25 yards from goal. He looks up and finds De Bruyne with a pass through the legs of Reinaldo and De Bruyne sweeps the ball beyond Oblak!
The Etihad bursts into life!
Man City 0-0 Atletico Madrid
68 mins: Three substitutions for Manchester City. Grealish, Foden and Jesus on for Mahrez, Gundogan and Sterling.
Rodrigo de Paul immediately goes in the book for a late challenge on Grealish! The former Aston Villa man is a foul magnet!
Man City 0-0 Atletico Madrid
67 mins: Big appeals! De Bruyne tries to slide a pass into Sterling and the England man goes down under pressure from Felipe. Penalty? No says the referee.
Not sure there was enough in it to warrant a spot kick. He does step across Sterling but there’s no attempt to make a tackle.
Man City 0-0 Atletico Madrid
66 mins: The frustration of the crowd is definitely growing as Man City’s passing becomes a little slack. Atletico will be lapping that up.
Into the final quarter of the first leg we go.
Man City 0-0 Atletico Madrid
The calvary arrive for Atletico. And we are hearing Guardiola is also about to make a triple change...
Man City 0-0 Atletico Madrid
64 mins: Sterling goes down inside the box under pressure from Felipe. Appeals from the crowd more than the players there. There was a little nudge but not enough for a penalty.
Felipe nods it away from a corner though and City have another chance to load the box.
In it comes and Laporte has a free header! He leaps and meets the ball but can’t quite get over it and it’s a couple of yards over the top.
Man City 0-0 Atletico Madrid
62 mins: The last few minutes has seen both teams revert to their formations from the first half. Manchester City playing some rather slow build-up as Atletico sit in deep.
Phil Foden is rather intensively warming up now.
Man City 0-0 Atletico Madrid
60 mins: Here come the substitutions. Koke, Griezmann and Llorente are coming off for De Paul, Correa and Cunha.
Fresh legs for the visitors.
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