Despite trailing with five minutes of normal time to go, 10-man Manchester City beat Schalke 3-2 in the first leg of their last-16 tie.
2018/2019 UEFA Champions League
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Match Events
7' CHANCE! Aguero's header saved
18' GOAL! Schalke 0-1 Man City (Aguero)
GOAL! AGUERO MAKES IT 1-0! Aguero capitalises on some defensive chaos to tap into an empty net from eight yards out. David Silva is credited with the assist. He won the ball after a poor Fahrmann pass and squared it to Aguero.
38' Penalty Goal! Schalke 1-1 Man City (Bentaleb)
GOAAAL! BENTALEB CONVERTS! Caligiuri cuts onto his left on the edge of the area and strikes a shot goalwards. Schalke appeal for a handball and VAR are reviewing it. The VAR awards a penalty to Schalke for Otamendi's handball!
Bentaleb steps up after a long wait and calmly fires into the bottom-right corner with his left foot.
45' Penalty Goal! Schalke 2-1 Man City (Bentaleb)
2-1! BENTALEB SCORES AGAIN! Bentaleb smashes the penalty into the top-left corner past a diving Ederson. The Manchester City goalkeeper got a hand to it, but it was not strong enough to stop Bentaleb's well-struck shot.
68' Second Yellow Card! Otamendi sent off
OTAMENDI SENT OFF! Otamendi clatters Burgstaller from behind and is immediately shown a second yellow card. Reckless defending.
85' GOAL! Schalke 2-2 Man City (Sane)
WHAT A GOAL! LEROY SANE! 2-2! Leroy Sane lines up the free-kick from just under 30 yards in a central position. His left-footed effort curls and dips into the top-right corner past a diving Fahrmann. Incredible.
90' GOAL! Schalke 2-3 Man City (Sterling)
STERLING! CITY GO 3-2 UP! Sterling latches onto a long ball from Ederson, bumping Oczipka away from the ball. He takes it down and passes it into the corner of the net.
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Match Report
Leroy Sane and Raheem Sterling scored late goals as 10-man Manchester City stunned Schalke at Veltins Arena to claim a 3-2 first-leg win in their Champions League last-16 tie.
Despite leading through Sergio Aguero's 18th-minute effort, City were behind at the break after Nabil Bentaleb scored a pair of spot-kicks.
The first of those, awarded after a lengthy period of deliberation and confusion, was given for a handball against Nicolas Otamendi, who was booked for that transgression and then picked up a second yellow card with 22 minutes remaining.
Guardiola appeared content to settle for just a one-goal deficit at that point, yet substitute Sane had other ideas, brilliantly firing in an 85th-minute free-kick to equalise against his former club, and Sterling then latched on to Ederson's long clearance to score a 90th-minute winner on a wild night in Gelsenkirchen.
Line-ups
Schalke XI: R. Fährmann, Caligiuri, Oczipka, J. Bruma, Nastasic, Mark Uth, S. Sané, Bentaleb, Serdar, H. Mendyl, McKennie
Subs: Burgstaller, S. Rudy, S. Skrzybski, Alexander Nübel, A. Harit, R. Matondo, A. Kutucu
Man City XI: David Silva, S. Agüero, Fernandinho, N. Otamendi, K. Walker, İ. Gündoğan, K. De Bruyne, R. Sterling, A.Laporte, Ederson Moraes, Bernardo Silva
Subs: V. Kompany, Danilo, Mahrez, Zinchenko, Sané, Foden, A. Murić