It formed the beginning of a wretched run which wrecked their Premier League title defence. Qualifying for the Champions League is a huge priority for so many teams. You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable Datawrapper cookies or to allow those cookies just once. Enable Cookies Allow Cookies OnceIgor Tudor's squad is already down to the bare bones, shot of confidence and badly in need of some training-ground time to come up with a structure which can scramble them to top-flight survival. Now they meet again in the last 16 and City have plenty of reasons to be optimistic about their chances against the 15-time Champions League winners.

Source: Sky sports March 09, 2026 16:13 UTC