Manchester City qualification comes at heavy price

Manchester City lost defenders Vincent Kompany and Nicolas Otamendi to injury as they limped into the Champions League quarter-finals after a dull goalless draw against Dynamo Kiev.

City should have been celebrating securing a place in the last eight for the first time but by full-time at the Etihad, the mood seemed rather sombre, as the implications of the injuries sank in.

The loss of Kompany, with a tricky run-in ahead, could be particularly galling — although on this occasion his team-mates coped well enough without him to ensure progress courtesy of last-month’s 3-1 win in Ukraine.