Manchester City strikes down Sporting Lisbon and caresses the quarterfinals of the Champions League

The Manchester City It passed like a cyclone through Lisbon, where it thrashed Sporting to leave sentenced, except for catastrophe within three weeks in England, the pass to the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

In a first part in which only the English team existed, the Algerian Riyad Mahrez (9), the Portuguese Bernardo Silva (17 and 44) ​​and Phil Foden (32) scored and in the second Raheem Sterling (59) scored to sentence the tie despite having to play the second leg on March 9 in Manchester.

As expected, Pep Guardiola’s team started out dominating and it took less than ten minutes to get ahead on the scoreboard, in a team move that culminated in the Algerian Riyad Mahrez’s shot into the net, which the referee annulled in the first instance due to an alleged Belgian Kevin de Bruyne was offside, which the VAR rectified (9).

The goal gave way to a tsunami from City, which at 11 minutes could have scored the second through John Stones and that Bernardo Silva did, with a powerful volley, in the 17th minute.

Unrestrained, City did not even wait to reach the break to end the game and, barring a catastrophe in England, the tie.

Phil Foden scored the third after a good play from the right by Mahrez (32) and Bernardo Silva gave the finishing touch to his compatriots, finishing a cross back from Raheem Sterling (44) into the net.

And what the VAR gave City in the first goal was taken away at the beginning of the second half, when Silva headed what was his third goal, but the referee annulled it for offside by the Portuguese midfielder (50) .

The fifth goal came shortly after, in a right foot from outside the Sterling area that entered through the top corner of the goal defended by the Spanish Antonio Adán (59) to close a match and a tie that ended at that moment. (D)