With a demonstration of strength, Manchester City defeated FC Bayern 3-0 on Tuesday evening, thereby underpinning their ambitions of finally clinching their first Champions League title this year. While the Cityzens convinced with consistency in front of goal and a great will to win, the Munich team made too many individual mistakes in crucial moments. The press reviews of the premier class cracker:
England
Daily Mail: “Bayern were good for so long, but in the end they desperately clung to their dignity as City ruthlessly won the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a 3-0 win.”
Evening Standard: “Haaland strikes again, Bayern collapses in the first leg against Man City”
The Sun: “ManCity 3 Bayern Munich 0: Haaland rounds off spectacular Champions League victory in which Guardiola puts his former club to flight.”
Mirror: “Man City tear Bayern Munich apart to reach the Champions League semi-finals. Pep Guardiola’s men shone at the Etihad Stadium as they edged past the reigning German giants and are now on their way to the Champions League semi-finals .”
The Guardians: “Could this finally be the year for Manchester City and Pep Guardiola? The Cityzens proved to shocking German eyes that the team is on form at exactly the right time of the season.”
Germany
Picture: “Now a miracle is needed! A really big one! One of biblical proportions! Bayern go down 3-0 at Manchester City in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League.”
Southgerman newspaper: “In a Champions League game at a very high level, Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City exploited the individual mistakes of Munich in a brutally efficient manner. Up to the 70th minute, there was actually little to indicate a clear result.”
table football: “FC Bayern went home from Manchester with a clear 3-0 defeat. In the first leg of the quarter-finals, Bayern held up well before City scored a dream goal and FCB made a game-winning, individual mistake.”
Eurosport: “FC Bayern must bury the dream of a handle pot. After a devastating 0: 3 (0: 1) in the quarter-final first leg of the giant duel with Manchester City, only a great football miracle can help the Munich team.”
sports1: “FC Bayern is experiencing a debacle in the premier class. Dayot Upamecano fails badly against Manchester City. Yann Sommer prevents a clap.”
ITALY
Gazzetta dello Sport: “Semi-finals in the bag for a crushing Manchester City who flattened Bayern Munich with three goals and made the trip to the Allianz Arena very easy, if not a formality.”
Corriere dello Sport: “City avalanche against Bavaria”
SPAIN
mark: “Manchester City and Bayern played the first leg of a duel that honors football. The key between the two European greats was decided in the first leg for Guardiola’s men (3-0) thanks to a spectacular goal from Rodri, Guardiola’s extended arm on the pitch and a player without whom it would be impossible to understand how this sky-blue machine works.”
Mundo Deportivo: “An insatiable City beats a bland Bavaria”
AS: “City ends the Bayern season”
AUSTRIA
Crown: “Manchester City uses Bayern’s blunders mercilessly. Manchester City have created a top starting position in the fight for promotion to the semi-finals of the soccer Champions League. England’s champions won the quarter-final first-leg hit against Bayern Munich on Tuesday evening, a highly deserved win in front of their own audience 3-0 and will hold all the trump cards in Germany next Wednesday.”
SWITZERLAND
View: “Blaue Watschn for Bayern! In terms of results, it was clear in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League between Manchester City and Bayern Munich: 3-0. One of the players in focus: Yann Sommer. Both positively and negatively.”