Manchester City Qualify For Champions League Semifinals After Detaining Munich 1-1

Celebration of Erling Haaland (center) after scoring for Manchester City in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Bayern Munich. (photo: dock. between)

JAKARTA - Manchester City qualified for the semifinals of the Champions League despite a 1-1 draw against Bayern Munich in the second leg of the quarter-finals at the Allianz Arena. The Citizen eliminated Bayern with an aggregate of the end of 4-1.Erling Haaland opened the scoring for City in the second half before Joshua Kimmich's penalty equalized for Bayern Munich. With this result, Manchester City will face the reigning team Real Madrid in the last four, according to the official UEFA website. In order to pursue a three-goal deficit, Bayern immediately attacked and immediately pressed City's defense. Die Rotten got a dangerous chance in the 16th minute when Thomas Muller provided a breakthrough bait to Leroy Sane who led the ball into the penalty box and just faced Ederson, but his shot went wide. Two minutes later Bayern almost played with 10 people after Dayot Upamecano fouled Erling Haaland, who chased Kevin de Bruyne's regional pass. Luckily, the referee canceled the red card because Haaland had already been caught up in an offside position. Sale again made a chance for Bayern in the 21st minute when he got a free kick in front of City's penalty box, but the ball into the bottom corner could be parried by Ederson. City got a penalty in the 35th minute after Upamecano was judged to be handball while trying to block Ilkay Guendogan's strike.Haaland stepped forward as the executor, but his kick actually bounced high from Yann Sommer's goal. Ahead of the end of the first half, Bayern got a chance in the 42nd minute through Kingsley Coman's kick. Unfortunately, Ederson's score was able to ward off. The 0-0 score lasted until halftime, but City still had a 3-0 aggregate lead.

After the break, City finally opened the scoring in the 57th minute. Kevin de Bruyne provided a through ball to Haaland who then passed Dayot Upamecano before beating Sommer with a flick of his left foot. In the 82nd minute, the referee awarded Bayern a penalty after VAR assessed Sadio Mane's cross against Manuel Akanji's hand. Kimmich stepped forward as the executioner and successfully scored a goal to turn the score to 1-1.Bayern failed to pursue a win or aggregate deficit against City which was too tough. Even the coach Thomas Tuchel got a second yellow card and was sent off after expressing his frustration to the referee's assistant.Bayern Muenchen's formulation (4-2-3-1): Yann Sommer; Benjamin Pavard (Josip Stanisic 77'), Dayot Upamecano, Matthijs de Ligt, Joao Cancelo (Alphonso Davies 63'); Joshua Kimmich, Leon Goretzka; Leroy Sane (Sadio Mane 63'), Jamal Musiala (Thomas Muller 71'), Kingsley Coman; Eric Choupo-Moting (Mathys Tel 71').Manchester City (3-2-4-1): Ederson; Manuel Akanji, Ruben Dias, Nathan Ake (Aymeric Laporte 66'); John Stones, Rodri; Bernardo De Bruyne (Kyle Walker 84'), Ilkay Gundogan, Jack Grealish; Erling Haalland (Julian Alvarez 84').