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LONDON: Rampant Manchester City demolished a woeful Schalke 7-0 to complete a 10-2 aggregate win and become the third English side into the quarter-finals of the Champions League on Tuesday.
City’s record home win in Europe did not look likely after a quiet opening 35 minutes but once Sergio Aguero began the rout from the penalty spot it became embarrassingly easy as City reached the last-eight for the third time in four years.
Aguero doubled City’s lead three minutes later and the impressive Leroy Sane made it 3-0 before half-time.
Raheem Sterling and Bernardo Silva finished off flowing moves after the break and youngster Phil Foden bagged his first European goal before Gabriel Jesus made it seven, rounding off the biggest ever Champions League defeat for a German side.
City, who trailed 2-1 in the away leg with 10 men before turning it around late on, join local rivals Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur in Friday’s quarter-final draw with Liverpool in action against Bayern Munich on Wednesday.
With Real Madrid and Paris Saint-germain having been knocked out, Guardiola’s side will fancy their chances of going all the way for the first time in the competition. Schalke’s players were barracked by their own fans By beating Schalke 7-0,
Man City equalled the record for the largest margin of victory in knockout stage. They share the record with Bayern Munich, who have done it twice — against Basel in 2011–12 and vs Shakhtar Donetsk in 2014–15 season. SECOND BIGGEST MARGIN Bayern hold the record for biggest aggregate win. They beat Sporting CP 12–1 (5–0, 7–1) in round of 16 in 2008–09. 10-2 the aggregate margin that City achieved against Schalke has been registered thrice earlier — Lyon v Werder Bremen (3-0, 7-2) in 2004-05; Barcelona v Bayer (3-1, 7-1) in 2011-12 and Bayern v Arsenal (5-1, 5-1) in 2016-17. at the end of a miserable night for Domenico Tedesco’s side who face a fight to preserve their Bundesliga status.
The sight of Sane causing so much discomfort for his former club hardly helped their mood.
He was a handful all night but it was the ever-reliable Aguero who got the ball rolling.
The Argentine coolly dinked his penalty down the middle after Silva was bundled over by Jeffrey Bruma. Aguero then took advantage of Sterling’s backheel to make it 2-0.