Atlético Madrid v Manchester City: Champions League quarter-final, second leg – live!

Champions League: City advanced to the semi-finals despite being outplayed in the second half of a largely turgid encounter that was hugely enhanced by a mass brawl and flurry of cards on 90 minutes. David Hytner reports from the Wanda Metropolitano …

The Manchester City refuses point-blank to be drawn on the brawl around the 90-minute mark and deflects BT Sport’s questions about Atletico possibly targetting Phil Foden.

Of the game itself, he had this to say. “They’re the champions of Spain and an unbelievable crowd and energy. And the second half they were better than us. The first-half we had the chances to do it but overall we are in the semi-finals. It’s well deserved over the two games.

On his casualties: “We are in big trouble [with injuries],” he says. “We can’t forget that we played three days ago. To play Liverpool, travel, come here. I don’t know what will happen in the next few weeks. Today we will celebrate because it’s only the third time City have reached the semi-finals of the Champions League.”

• 1) Felipe slides in to dispossess Foden, (possibly deliberately) mistiming his tackle completely.
• 2) He throws a little kick Foden’s way as a little bonus.
• 3) Having been kicked off the pitch, Foden rolls back on to it in order to scream in agony so the ref will have to stop play and allow the physio on.
• 4) Stefan Savic steams in and tries to drag Foden to his feet.
• 5) Assorted plasyers, substitutes and backroom staff get involved prompting mass handbags.
• 6) Savic gets all up in Raheem Sterling’s grill, butting him slightly.
• 7) Jack Grealish, an unuused substitute, calls Savic the c-word.
• 8) Savic pulls Grealish’s hair.
• 9) Felipe gets sent off and goes absolutely ballistic.
• 10) Felipe is dragged away towards the tunnel by a member of Atletico’s backroom staff.
• 11) Savic is booked.
• 12) Nathan Ake is booked and I think that about covers it.

Confirmation: Stefan Savic pulled Jack Grealish’s hair. Ha!

Well. That was a tremendously fun ending to an otherwise fairly turgid encounter. Atletico Madird completely lost their heads but almost managed to nick an equaliser at the end. We’ve had 11 yellow cards shown in total, with seven of them (and a red) being brandished by Daniel Siebert after the 90th minute.

BT Sport report: Commentator Darren Fletcher is reporting a tunnel bust-up between Stefan Savic and Jack Grealish. He believes several members of the local constabulary may be involved.

Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeeeeeeep! It’s all over at the Wanda Metropolitano, where Manchester City have advanced to the semi-finals of the Champions League. Their players celebrate with a big group hug before going to applaud their fans.

90+12 min: Ake does well to hook a dropping ball aweay from Suarez in the City penalty area and then Ederson saves from Correa. Wow!

90+9 min: The ball is whipped in towards the City goal but Ederson punches clear and goes down hurt. He’ll live. On the touchline, Simeone is applauding the Atletico fans.

He pauses to march on to the pitch and give his own player, Stefan Savic a massive bollocking, furiously telling him to calm down and get on with the game. Again, I cannot stress enough how much fun this is. Phil Foden is paroxysms of mirth laughing at Simeone … who also gets booked.

90+8 min: Joao Cancelo gets booked for a mistimed tackle right on the left-hand side of the City penalty area. Free-kick for Atletico in a very dangerous area.

90+7 min: Phil Foden gets a yellow card to go with his blue bandage.

90+7 min: Sterling plays in Gundogan, who looks certain to score but Oblak gets down to save brilliantly.

90+6 min: Yes, six … of nine recommended minutes of added time.

90+3 min: I think Cunha’s just been booked for a foul on Fernandinho but can’t be certain. And what’s this? Now Riyad Mahrez goes in the book for time-wasting.

90 min: Felipe has completely lost the plot after being sent off and has to be dragged away by one of Atletico’s backroom staff. He storms off down the tunnel with a massive funk on. This is tremendous fun.

89 min: Phil Foden is tackled by Felipe and goes down hurt on the touchline. Stefan Savic sprints over to try to drag him to his feet. A mass melee ensues involving several players and backroom staff from both teams.

Savic appears to have stuck the nut on somebody but gets away with a yellow card. Nathan Ake gets booked as well, while Felipe gets a second yellow for the original foul on Phil Foden. These are the kind of scenes we all love to see but are obliged to pretend we don’t.

87 min: John Stones blocks brilliantly from a Cunha shot after the player had picked up a Correa knockdown. It was Atletico’s best chance of the game so far.

86 min: Going back to that Correa penalty appeal – I can’t believe it wasn’t given. Rodri had a fistful of the players shirt and was pulling him back, while Joao Cancelo brought him down. Video assistant referee Marco Fritz might have been asleep at his post.

84 min: City are laying siege to the Atletico penalty area, which is not an area of the pitch the hosts want to be penned into as the clock ticks down.

81 min: A Mahrez free-kick is curled into the Atletico penalty area and cleared. Atletico double-substitution: Luis Suarez and Matheus Cunha on for Thomas Lemar and Joao Felix.

79 min: Manchester City substitution: Fernadinho on for Bernardo Silva.

77 min: Correa goes down in the City penalty area and appeals for a penalty while the ball pings towards Carrasco on the left side of the area. No spot-kick is forthcoming, despite Correa appearing to have been fouled by both Joao Cancelo, who tripped him and Rodri, who had a good handful of his shirt. A let-off for City.

75 min: Angel Correa gives Sterling the slip and plays the ball wide to Carrasco. His cross is blocked, then Reinildo sends in another that is cleared by Stones.

73 min: Kyle Walker goes to ground again and signals to the bench that he is unable to continue, prompting more whistles and jeers from the crowd. He’s replaced by Nathan Ake. He goes in at left-back, with Joao Cancelo moving to right-back.

71 min: That Atletico triple substitution: Rodrigo De Paul, Angel Correa and Yannick Carrasco on for Lodi, Koke and Griezmann.

70 min: Rodrigo De Paul, just on as part of an Atletico triple-substitution (more of which anon), shoots wide of the upright. Walker is back on the pitch put moving very gingerly.

68 min: Walker is still receiving treatment as the Atletico fans jeer him and Simeone gesticulates furiously on the touchline.

67 min: Kyle Walker intercepts a Lodi header out by the touchline then goes down injured after the pair go to ground in a heap. He looks in quite a bit of distress after what seemed a fairly innocuous coming together.

65 min: Manchester City substitution: Raheem Sterling replaces Kevin De Bruyne, who’s been struggling to get time on the ball.

64 min: Bernardo Silva robs Kondogbia of the ball about 20 yards outside the Atletico penalty area and looks to have a run on goal but he’s penalised for a foul.

62 min: Still lacking that killer pass, Atletico contine to dominate for this second half spell. Antoine Griezmann goes down in the inside-right channel looking for a free-kick but doesn’t get one.

59 min: Manchester City are starting to look a little nervy as Atletico gather momentum with their raucous crowd getting behind them in fine voice.

56 min: Atletico are currently in the ascendency but lacking that bit of finesse and cutting edge. The final ball, as they say. They go close again when Griezmann shoots narrowly wide of the upright after connecting with a ball bouncing his way just outside the City penalty area.

55 min: Ederson clears a Koke ball over the top but only as far as Renan Lodi. He crosses towards Joao Felix, who stretches every sinew but can’t connect. He was offside again.

53 min: Felipe kicks a clearance against his team-mate Reinildo and the ball rolls backwards, hits the corner flag and stays in play. Felipe puts it out for a goal-kick off Mahrez.

50 min: Geoffrey Kondogbia wins a free-kick deep inside his own half after being bodychecked by Bernardo Silva.

47 min: Koke tries to pick out Joao Feliz with a ball in behind through the centre. It’s intercepted but the striker was several metres offside anyway.

48 min: Much like the first half, Atletico have ramped up the aggression for the opening minutes of the second. Kyle Walker sticks out a leg to take the ball off Griezmann and send it downfield.

47 min: Antoine Griezmann cuts in from the right and shoots into the side-netting under pressure from Laporte. Corner. Nothing comes of it although Felipe made a decent fist of hurling himself at the ball as it came in.

46 min: Play resumes with no changes of personnel on either side … yet. There has been one minor change in so far as Phil Foden is now sporting a blue bandage.

An email: “Foden has been a shadow of himself since the aerial challenge,” writes Eamonn. “You can see Atletico players are bullying him. Won’t be surprised to see him hooked.”

He’s not wrong. Whether he’s feeling intimidated or suffering the ill effects of that bang on his head early doors, Foden has been a very peripheral figure, albeit one that sticks out like a sore thumb (or indeed a sore Phil Foden) with that beige bandage wrapped around his head.

Peep: Something of an ordeal for anyone who had to play in it or watch it, the first half draws to a merciful end. Manchester City hit the post once but were otherwise kept at arm’s length and not much else happened. Both managers will be pleased.

44 min: Atletico’s players surround the referee looking for a yellow card for John Stones after he’d fouled Joao Felix. In the BT Sport commentary box, Darren Fletcher and Glenn Hoddle are clutching their pearls and swooning like a pair of Victorian ladies at the sight of this outrageous shithousery that you just don’t see week in and week out in the Premier League.

42 min: This is more like the Atletico we were expecting – dogged, stout defence and the occasional long ball forward … but mainly dogged, stout defence. It remains scoreless on the night but City lead 1-0 on aggregate.

40 min: Kyle Walker gets the better of Lodi down the right, cuts inside and tries a shot. Reinildo blocks.

37 min: City continue to dominate having weathered their hosts’ early storm but are creating little in the way of chances. Cancelo cuts in from the left and tries to curl one goalwards from outside the penalty area but sends his shot high and wide of the top corner he was aiming for.

34 min: The ball’s played wide to Lodi on the left and he cuts inside before offloading to Lemar. A promising move ends with Ederson getting down to claim a deflected Geoffrey Kondogbia shot from distance that appeared to be skidding wide.

32 min: Having hit the post with that effort, the ball rebounded to Gundogan, who tried to head it back past Oblak. He succeeds only in heading it straight into Felipe’s face, a state of affairs from which he will almost certainly take some minor consolation.