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Man City 2-1 Real Madrid: Guardiola's men book place in Champions League quarter-finals
Manchester City beat Real Madrid to book their place in the Champions League quarter-finals.
Man City v Real Madrid: Guardiola praises team after win
Manchester City stars Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus netted in a 2-1 win (4-2 agg.) against Real Madrid to book their place in the Champions League quarter-finals. City boasted a 2-1 lead heading into the second leg of their round of 16 clash at the Etihad.
Many feel it's City's best chance to win the Champions League - and Pep Guardiola's men got off to a flying start.
Sterling netted with just 9 minutes gone after Jesus stole the ball of Real defender Raphael Varane.
Karim Benzema equalised for Real just before the half hour mark with a fine header, however, the Spanish giants struggled to impress in Manchester.
City put the game out of sight for Real in the 68th minute.
Jesus capitalised on another Varane mistake and lifted the ball over Thibaut Courtois to put City 2-1 up on the night.
City held on to book their place in the next round of the competition.
Guardiola's men will face Lyon in the Champions League quarter-finals.
Sterling hailed his team-mates after City's win, with the England international claiming they're ready to go all the way.
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He told BT Sport: "Energy, passion. It is a competition we want to do well in. If we play our football and run our socks off then the result will come.
"We know how good they are, we know how good we are and the difference was who would run the most and I thought we were brilliant today.
"We wanted to be right on them and from our pressing we got two goals. A great achievement (to score 100 goals for the club), hopefully plenty more to follow."
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