Five-star Man City stun Monaco in eight goal classic

Manchester City 5 - Monaco 3: Manchester City still can’t defend — and after conceding three goals at home they still aren’t certain to go through — but who really cares when Pep Guardiola’s men can produce a performance like this which must go down as one of the greatest Champions League ties of all time?

Ravaged at times by Radamel Falcao, who scored one of the competition’s great goals to put his side 3-2 up, City nevertheless completed a quite remarkable 5-3 victory against very strong opposition thanks to two goals from Sergio Aguero and further contributions from Raheem Sterling and John Stones and Leroy Sane.

It means they head to Monaco on March 15 still in with a big chance of reaching the quarter-finals for the second year in a row and with supporters beginning to believe that the Guardiola era really could be as exciting as they were promised.