Sergio Aguero – Manchester City's Suarez without the bite
March 26th, 2025by Back Page Football
Just as I was sinking into my sofa to watch this game I had one of those rare gut feelings that something a bit different or special might be about to happen. Too lazy to get up as the familiar Champions League theme music floated around the living room, I browsed my phone for mobile betting apps and just managed to get my bet in before the kick off. A tenner on City to win it, why bayern had not tasted defeat for ages, and that combined with The Citizens' Champs League record made for a more likely Munich win – or so the bookies thought. As we found, sometimes things don't always go to the script. But there is one constant and that is the brilliance of one man who can always be relied upon.
Just as he has so many times before, Sergio Aguero's hat-trick saved City's skin when all had seemed lost and kept their slim UCL progression prospects alive. Just like Liverpool owed so much to Suarez last season, and Spurs to Bale before that, this Manchester City team is largely relying on 'Kun'.
Even though City should have been cruising after Medhi Benatia received a straight red card and conceded a clear penalty for denying Aguero a clear goal scoring opportunity, it only sparked 10-man Bayern into a defiant riposte. By half time, a worm-burning free kick from Xabi Alonso (which was pretty poorly dealt with by Joe Hart) had the visitors level and it was swiftly followed up by Robert Lewandowski's shoulder/header to make it 2-1. What was happening here? The champions of England being beaten by 10 men at home.
City should have been expected to have come back after the break and taken advantage of the numerical difference, but it was Bayern who went on to absolutely dominate possession for the majority of the second half. Their ten men just ran rings around City and at times it was just breath-taking to watch how masterfully they were doing it.
At 20:45 I noticed a tweeted statistic that since they went down to 10 men, Bayern had completed more than twice as many passes as City. It was evident that the home fans had gone very quiet and at times it was like their team was being given a humiliating lesson in 'keepy-offy'.
As the clock ticked down, it seemed that the best that Manchester City could have hoped for was a rather unlikely late equalizer. My ill-placed tenner was most certainly gone by then as the match had entered the last five minutes. Surely. But Sergio was not done yet.
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