In the early morning of April 14, Beijing time, the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals ushered in a focus battle, Manchester City away to Atletico Madrid. In the end, Manchester City injured two players in a row and was in poor shape, forcing a 0-0 draw with Atletico Madrid, with an aggregate score of 1-0 to advance to the next round, and the team advanced to the top 4 for the first time in two consecutive seasons.
As the number one champions league favourite, this is the fifth consecutive season of Manchester City to advance to the quarter-finals, no other team has done it in the same period, guardiola has not yet won any Champions League title after taking charge of the Blue Moon, which is his biggest knot waiting to be solved.
Relying on De Bruyne's goal at home in the first leg last week, City temporarily took a 1-0 lead to take the lead in promotion, and in the second leg they could eliminate Atletico Madrid as long as they did not lose. This is the first time in Manchester City's history that they have played Atletico Madrid away in Europe, and their previous 11 European away games against Spain have won only 3, and the remaining games have 1 draw and 7 losses.
According to statistics, the second leg against Atletico Madrid was the 100th Champions League game in The history of Manchester City, after 55 wins in 99 games, they are already the English team with the highest winning rate in the first 100 games of the Champions League, and the number of wins is only less than that of Real Madrid, who have won 57 games.
Away from home, City's attack was not efficient, only 8 shots on goal in the first half, but none of them were on target, the best chance to score was in the 30th minute, Foden passed to Gundogan, who hit the post and popped up, missing the goal.
In the second half, the Manchester City backline was attacked by Atletico. In the 46th minute, Griezmann hit the goal from a tight angle on the right and Laporte blocked the bottom line. In the 56th minute, Felix split the ball and Griezmann followed up with a volley that slid across the goal. De Bruyne and Walker then injured each, and Guardiola passively adjusted 2 men.
In the 89th minute, Felipe shoveled Over Foden, there was an additional move, followed by a massive clash between the two sides, the two teams of more than 20 people fought en masse, and finally Savage, Ak and Felipe were all shown yellow cards, and Felipe received a second yellow card and was sent off.
In the end, Manchester City had a thrilling 0-0 draw with Atletico, passing the aggregate score of 1-0, advancing to the Champions League final four for two consecutive seasons, and will compete against Real Madrid to qualify for the final.