Guardiola warns his players no to try and protect 5-3 lead

In what promises to be an entertaining encounter, Monaco have to overcome a two-goal deficit against Manchester City in the second leg of their UEFA Champions League round-of-16 tie on Wednesday at the Stade Louis II Stadium.

Man. City recovered from a poor first half and began to threaten Monaco in the second half, with Sergio Aguero missing two good chances in as many minutes around the hour mark.

Sane took advantage to put City back ahead on aggregate when he pounced from close range after Subasic palmed out a shot from Sterling with 71 minutes gone.

His flops let slip a two-goal lead as they were out-thought and out-fought by Monaco following the pulsating 5-3 victory at the Etihad last month.

Pep Guardiola denied Manchester City’s defence was to blame for their Champions League elimination as the manager stated it occurred because all of his players “were not there” in the first half against Monaco. At this level, you can not concede the way we did or forget to play in the first 45 minutes, but we had the chances in the second half. They spent most time defending, while they were sloppy in possession of the ball.

Examples from history may serve to both help and hinder Monaco’s cause against Manchester City in the second leg of its Champions League round-of-16 tie on Wednesday, while Antoine Griezmann will be expected to play a part in firing Atletico Madrid past Bayer Leverkusen.

“When you look at the number of goals, it’s 6-6 but we managed to score many away goals and be solid at home so I would say we deserve to go through”, said Bakayoko.

Guardiola responded by introducing Kelechi Iheanacho to set up a tense finale. In addition, for the entire distance of the current season on the home field of Monaco in only 3 matches scored less than 2 goals.

“We know that City likes to play with a high defensive line”.

‘We do well against English teams.

“We have to work hard to improve every game and we will see where we can reach in the end”. Sometimes we have to be special and be lucky.

Anthony Martial couldn’t hide his delight after Monaco knocked out Manchester City to reach the Champions League quarter-final. A forward surge from Benjamin Mendy was eventually ended by an excellent tackle from John Stones but the ball broke for Bernardo Silva, and his low cross was touched in by Mbappe, his 11th goal in his last 11 games. They lost to eventual winners Real Madrid in the last four clash.