Kevin de Bruyne has scored three goals in four games for Manchester City since returning from a two-month lay-off.
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Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini paid tribute to his team’s stylish performance that secured a place in the Champions League semi-finals for the first time in the club’s history.
Kevin de Bruyne’s 76th minute goal solidified City’s position in the tie, the Belgian neatly created a pocket of space on the edge of the area before beautifully stroking the ball past the despairing Kevin Trapp.
However, the 30-year-old is back in training and Pellegrini hopes to have him available for the Premier League clash at Chelsea on Saturday, if not next Tuesday’s trip to embattled Newcastle.
“Over the course of the two matches, even though we made a few mistakes in the first match, that didn’t meant that we didn’t think we could get through”.
“Missing a penalty is obviously not a good thing, but fortunately it’s all gone now”, Aguero added on the club’s website. “We are very happy”, said Aguero.
“Both this evening and last week in Paris, we weren’t clinical enough, we weren’t efficient”, PSG coach Laurent Blanc said through a translator. We played a very good game. “Now we have to take a step back and analyse what has happened”.
UEFA has charged Manchester City in relation to fireworks being set off during their Champions League quarter-final victory over Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday.
“Yaya didn’t start the game because he worked just two days before the game against West Bromwich”, Pellegrini said of the midfielder brought on in the 84th minute.
After De Bruyne’s goal, City’s supporters broke into loud chanting but then the traveling fans watched in shock as Fernando’s gaffe wiped away the City smiles.
“The leagues are what they are, but the Champions League is often the same clubs in the semi-finals”.
“Some of the senior players are out of contract at the end of the season so we will have to look at that”.
“When you win, it is down to the players but I can assume responsibility for the defeat”.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint-Germain forward): “In the first half we played with a new system and what happened, happened”. “We are so disappointed tonight and angry. It was the ideal game in the end”, said Ronaldo. Often derided for their apathy towards the Champions League, City’s supporters certainly loved this occasion and it could be the night when the competition really embedded itself in their hearts. In the first half we deserved to be ahead, and we knew the second half was going to be tough.
