Man City

It's only “half-time” in their round of 16 tie against Sporting CP, but Manchester City already have one foot in the Uefa Champions League quarter-finals ...

In the Champions League you cannot relax.” Sporting will be “dismissed as sacrificial lambs” but Real Madrid would not have done this in Lisbon, she added. City have been favourites to win the Champions League before, said Luke Edwards in The Telegraph. They were “equally impressive” on their way to the final last season, but the “ultimate prize, the club’s Holy Grail”, slipped through their fingers at the last moment. Guardiola and City’s owners are “desperate to win in Europe”, Edwards added. This “statement” result – the joint-biggest victory by any side in the history of the Champions League knockout stages – has “further underlined why City are considered favourites to lift the trophy”. The margins are fine, we’ve seen that in the Champions League, but I think he [Guardiola] backs his players to get the job done this season."

Manchester City's journey was disrupted by Storm Dudley as they travelled back from Portugal on Wednesday having defeated Sporting Lisbon 5-0 in the ...

The difference between the sides is not 5-0, but we were so clinical, we punished them. I’m incredibly happy, please don't misunderstand me, but we can do better." Against the top sides in Europe we would be punished.

High winds meant the plane could not touch down at Manchester Airport, leading to the late change 31 miles away. Advertisement. Flight maps showed the ...

Former player Owen Hargreaves was very impressed with the performance and said on BT Sport after the game: "There is no such thing as perfection, but they're as close to a perfect team if there is one right now. There were delays on the M60 and M56 and Manchester Piccadilly train station also suffered flooding as a result of the storm. Man City team jet forced to change course mid-air and land in Liverpool due to high winds on flight home from Lisbon

Pep Guardiola believes his side can do better despite taking firm control of their Champions League last-16 tie.

The manager pushes us and we compete with each other for the team. “The next game is Saturday, Tottenham at home. It is good but we have to keep going.

Ruben Dias says he and his teammates thrive under the pressure of the biggest matches and challenges.

“But it's a positive feeling, because it makes us better, it makes us want to improve every day, both individually and collectively. “Obviously, it's a big ambition for all of us and we like to feel that pressure, that feeling that it's a team goal. “In our team we all like to win, we like difficult challenges, because that is the only way we can show how good we are,” he said.

Phil Foden impressed at the centre of Man City's attack in the 5-0 thrashing of Sporting CP in the Champions League.

"Without that anticipation and belief that the ball is going to come to him, he doesn't get the opportunity to show his skill right in-front of goal. He's got that instinct to just hang in there even if the chance looks like it might disappear. There would be no point in chucking a random striker into the mix who can't get involved in build-up play. "His goal wasn't one where he just lost his man and was completely unmarked to tap home. "It was a good night for Phil after some mixed conversation about the season that he's having. The little drag-back at Norwich, the feint to sit the goalkeeper down against Sporting.