Manchester City beat Dortmund in Champions League, Phil Foden strike made the differnce

 

Manchester City got a last-heave triumph against Borussia Dortmund in their Champions League quarterfinal first leg at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday night with a late goal from Phil Foden.

 

A poor Emre Can giveaway in midfield prompted Man City's first goal of the game as Kevin De Bruyne diverted Riyad Mahrez's cross past Marwin Hitz in the Dortmund goal to give his side the lead not long before 20 minutes.

 

Can's unpleasant night looked set to proceed with when he was whistled for punishment on City's Rodrigo, however the Germany international was rescued after a VAR check appeared there was a handball before his foul.

 

Dortmund hoped to have drawn level before half-time when Jude Bellingham confiscated Man City keeper Ederson and was left to take advantage of a vacant net, yet the arbitrator brutally whistled the 17-year-old for a foul on the play and Pep Guardiola's group took their one-goal lead into the break.

 

The guests confronted an extreme test in the second half as they attempted to discover a path back into the game against a Man City group that came into the match without surrendering a goal in the Champions League for 706 minutes.

 

Ederson acted the hero right off the bat in the subsequent half, saving from Erling Haaland with an outstretched foot as the German side kept on messing City up.

 

Dortmund did well to hold the shortfall to an intensely hot City team at a single goal before Marco Reus polished off a decent team move with a smooth strike to give his group a significant away goal.

 

Be that as it may, Foden scored a sharp goal from an Ilkay Gundogan help not long before the full-an ideal opportunity to give Man City the success and a thin benefit over Dortmund for the return leg on April 14 in Germany with a spot in the Champions League elimination rounds on the line.

 

Guardiola's side came up short on their typical sharpness in the last third yet the Spaniard said his team needed to manage a tremendous weight of assumption on account of their scorching structure coming into the match and Dortmund's battles in the Bundesliga.

 

"At the point when you dominate 26 matches in 27 and they are not winning the Bundesliga, the pressing factor is on our shoulders," he said after the match.

 

"Everything is ensured for us. Everyone accepted we would win.

 

"We had an unbelievable responsibility and want to go through."

 

Guardiola said he would hope to make a few changes for the return leg however focused on they would not be going to Germany to pause for a minute or two and shield.

 

"I requested that the players dominate the match. We did it and now we go to Dortmund not to safeguard," he added. "We'll change our squeezing, change our development and play an hour and a half to attempt to arrive at the elimination round."

 

Guardiola hailed the presentation of 20-year-old Foden, who looked a genuine peril towards the finish of the challenge.

 

"Phil was splendid in his hostility just now, he was our danger," Guardiola said.

 

"Second half, he played truly well, and one against one showing up in the last third, he had two, three opportunities to score lastly did."

 

Following the match, Dortmund safeguard Mats Hummels told DAZN: "It was an awesome exhibition of our own, I think. It's irritating that initially we just score one goal from what we made and besides, we yielded a goal that appeared as though we could protect it. We've tossed everything in today. What we definitely should do at regular intervals.

 

"If we return home with a 1-1, everybody's satisfied. In any case, with that late 2-1 for City, the inclination's not very good now even though we made plenty of things right."

 

Hummels' chief Edin Terzic added: "Our odds to go through are still there. A 1-1 following an hour and a half would have implied we'd be essentially through at kick-off in Dortmund. That is consistently a decent group of stars in the knockout stages."

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