Champions League, Manchester City book last-eight berth: Records broken
Manchester City kept their hopes of winning a quadruple this season after making it to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League 2020-21 season. Pep Guardiola's side repeated their first-leg heroics at the Puskas Arena in Budapest against Gladbach. They won the round of 16 two-legged clash on a 4-0 aggregate score. City are the in-form side and carry maximum threat. Here's more.
How did the match pan out?
Man City extended their overall advantage after only 12 minutes of the last-16 second-leg tie through Kevin de Bruyne, who scored from an excellent 20-yard left-footed strike. Six minutes later, City went 2-0 up after Ilkay Gundogan slotted past Gladbach goal-keeper Yann Sommer following a fine run and pass from Phil Foden.
City breach the 100-goal mark in 2020-21
Man City have now scored more than 100 goals in each of their past eight seasons in all competitions. As per Opta, only Manchester United (nine in a row between 2004-05 and 2012-13) have a longer run of consecutive seasons scoring 100+ goals among top-flight English teams. Guardiola has seen his teams score 100+ goals in all his 12 seasons as a manager.
City have gone 706 minutes without conceding in the UCL
As per Opta, City are only the third team in Champions League history to keep seven consecutive clean sheets, after AC Milan (seven ending in April 2005) and Arsenal (10 ending in April 2006). They have also gone 706 minutes without scoring in the Champions League (from 21/10/2020 to 16/03/2021). Arsenal hold the record in this regard (from 27/09/2005 to 17/05/2006).
Notable stats for Foden and De Bruyne
Phil Foden has been directly involved in 20 goals in all competitions for City this season (11 goals, nine assists). As per Opta, since his Manchester City debut, Kevin De Bruyne has scored 25 goals from outside the box in all competitions - three more than any other Premier League player in this time.
