Man City on brink of Champions League quarters after 5-0 win over Sporting CP
Manchester City are on course for the Champions League quarter-finals after Bernardo Silva’s brace inspired a masterful 5-0 rout of Sporting Lisbon in the last 16 first leg on Tuesday.
🔵 Man City have now scored 200 goals in the Champions League (group stage to final)…
⚽️ Who scored their best goal tonight?#UCL
— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) February 15, 2022
Pep Guardiola’s side produced a swaggering display at the Jose Alvalade Stadium to kill off Sporting before the second leg in Manchester on March 9.
Unstoppable? Manchester City have scored five goals or more for the third time this season…
⏰⚽️0⃣7⃣ Mahrez
⏰⚽️1⃣7⃣ Bernardo Silva
⏰⚽️3⃣2⃣ Foden
⏰⚽️4⃣4⃣ Bernardo Silva
⏰⚽️5⃣8⃣ Sterling #UCL pic.twitter.com/1RU8uOULpz— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) February 15, 2022
Riyad Mahrez opened the scoring and Silva bagged the second before Phil Foden made it three by the 32nd minute.
With City at their imperious best, Portugal forward Silva struck again on his return to his homeland and Raheem Sterling’s gem rounded off the demolition after the interval.
🗣️ Bernardo Silva: "I'm Portuguese, I'm from the other side of the city. My mum is Sporting, my dad is Benfica. It was special to score here in my hometown."#UCL pic.twitter.com/b7abbZgpzG
— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) February 16, 2022
City are unbeaten in their last 13 games in all competition, a hot streak that now includes 12 wins.
Sterner tests will await City later in the competition but this was a significant statement of intent that will have been heard all around Europe.