KHARKIV, Ukraine — Shakhtar Donetsk advanced to the knockout stage of the Champions League with a 2-1 victory over Manchester City on Wednesday, prompting the Ukrainian club’s coach to attend his news conference dressed as Zorro. He was fulfilling a promise he’d made to dress up as the fictional vigilante if Shakhtar qualified from a group containing favourites City and Napoli. Defeat means City, which had already qualified as Group F winner, failed to become only the seventh club in Champions League history to win every game in the group stage. “We lose a game, it’s part of our profession,” City coach Pep Guardiola said. City had been unbeaten in 28 games since then, 22 of them this season.

Source: National Post December 06, 2017 22:05 UTC