The Manchester City dispatched Borussia Monchengladbach smoothly repeating the 2-0 of the first leg and signed their presence in the quarterfinals of the Champions League for the third consecutive season, instance in which he has also stayed for three years in a row.
Those of Pep Guardiola s quickly understood the game in the first quarter of an hour with a goal from Kevin de Bruyne and another from Ilkay Gündogan , who left the tie sentenced after the 2-0 achieved on the same stage, the Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary, in the first leg.
A dominant display! 😎
🔷 # ManCity | https://t.co/axa0klD5re
– Manchester City (@ManCity) March 13, 2021
The Belgian was in charge of scare away any ghost with a shot from the first left by the left that licked the crossbar before getting into the goal of Yann Sommer . A real goal for a City that already showed its intentions to go for the match a few minutes before when Foden wasted a heads up.
KDB HIT THAT 🚀😳 pic.twitter.com/eWOQAUbqcO
– Champions League on CBS Sports (@UCLonCBSSports) March 16, 2021
It was the Englishman in charge of conducting the second of the Sky Blues. A starting from his field, the pearl of City left several opponents along the way and filtered the ball for a Gündogan that slipped between the centrals and defined crossed before the exit of Sommer.
That through ball from Phil Foden 🤤 pic.twitter.com/5Zo0uLSCuo
– Champions League on CBS Sports (@UCLonCBSSports) March 16, 2021
In 18 minutes the City did not need much more to know that I was already in the quarterfinals . That favored the relaxation of Guardiola’s men, happy to know that they were the owners of the ball and sporadically arriving in the area of a team that was running backwards.
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