A 1-1 draw on the night secured a 4-1 aggregate victory over Bayern Munich following our win at the Etihad Stadium eight days earlier.
Erling Haaland‘s 57th-minute strike put us on the road to the last-four and while, a late Joshua Kimmich penalty stopped us extending our winning streak to 11 games, it was still a night to remember.
Here we take a look at the some of the statistics from our game at the Allianz Arena and what it means to our European record…
‘Incredible machine’
Pep Guardiola described Haaland as an ‘incredible machine’ after another goal to send us on our way to the semi-finals.
The Norwegian has now scored in his last seven games in all competitions – with a total of 15 goals, taking his tally for the season to an incredible 48.
He is the Champions League’s leading scorer this season with 12 goals, which equals the best performance of any Premier League player in a single campaign, set by Manchester United’s Ruud van Nistelrooy set in the 2002/03 season.
Following his goal in the first leg, Haaland now has six goals against Bayern since he first faced them in May 2020, more than any other player against the German side.
The only slight blemish was a missed penalty, his first in a City shirt in eight attempts and first in two years.
Assists king
Probably the move of the match was the one that led to City’s goal – a fast break from one end of the pitch to the other and a thumping strike to finish.
Typically it was Kevin De Bruyne who claimed the assist and the Belgian’s partnership with Haaland is continuing to blossom.
De Bruyne has now contributed an assist for 12 of the City striker’s goals in all competitions so far this season.
His contribution at the Allianz Arena took his tally for the campaign to 23 in all competitions, surpassing his own best of 22 accomplished in 2019/20.
And this season he has five more assists than any other in Europe’s ‘big five’ leagues – ahead of Paris Saint-Germain’s Lionel Messi on 18.
Solid defence
City’s backline deserves a huge amount of credit for conceding only once to the German champions over 180 minutes and that only came after a controversial handball awarded against Manuel Akanji late in the second leg.
Needing goals to overturn a three-goal deficit from the first leg, Bayern had five attempts on target at the Allianz Arena, fewer than their season average of 7.2, with five more efforts blocked.
Ruben Dias was our man of the match after another solid display but the whole of the defence worked well to cut down the home side’s opportunities.
The Portuguese defender had the best passing rate of any City player with a 97% completion rate from 31 attempts, only lower than Bayern’s Jamal Musiala who completed all of his 24 passes.
Germany joy
City have now lost only one of our last 21 matches against German teams in the Champions League – winning 17 of them.
Included in that list is the games from this season - three wins at the Etihad Stadium against Borussia Dortmund in the group stage, and RB Leipzig and Bayern in the knockout stages, a s well asdraws in Germany to all three.
Our last defeat was in Leipzig in the 2021/22 group stage when seeded qualification for the last-16 was already secured.
Next up is a trip to face Real Madrid and last season’s semi-final second leg defeat was our only defeat from our last six games against Spanish opposition.
