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Aguero stars in City win, Atletico held
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SERGIO Aguero scored one goal and helped create another as Manchester City powered to a 3-1 first-leg win over Dynamo Kiev in the last 16 of the Champions League on Wednesday.
Aguero and David Silva’s goals gave City a 2-0 cushion at the break before Vitaliy Buyalskiy pulled one back for Dynamo and Yaya Toure secured a valuable third away goal for City.
“It is not finished but playing away and having a two-goal lead is very good,” City coach Manuel Pellegrini said. “Maybe when it was 2-1 we had moments of doubt, but then we got the third goal.”
Facing a Ukrainian team which had not played competitively since December, Aguero took full advantage of poor Dynamo defending at a corner to score his 15th-minute opener with a simple finish after being left unmarked.
Aguero has now scored eight goals in City’s last nine games and 16 in his last 17 Champions League starts. The Argentine also helped to set up City’s second, feeding Raheem Sterling with a backheel on the edge of the box. Sterling then crossed low for Silva to score at the far post just before halftime.
Dynamo shook off some of the rust in the second half and struck back in the 59th minute through Buyalskiy, whose shot from 18 meters deflected in off Nicolas Otamendi. That marked the 10th Champions League game in a row in which City has conceded at least one goal.
The win ends a three-game losing run for City and comes after Pellegrini rested star players in a 1-5 loss to Chelsea in the FA Cup on Sunday, opting to focus instead on City’s push to reach a first Champions League quarterfinal.
In Netherlands, 10-man PSV Eindhoven battled to a 0-0 draw with Atletico Madrid, comfortably surviving more than 20 minutes after a red card for striker Gaston Pereiro.
PSV coach Phillip Cocu said before the match that both sides would likely settle for 0-0, but he was far happier than Diego Simeone with the goalless stalemate after PSV held on following Pereiro’s dismissal for two senseless fouls. “I am very satisfied with this result,” Cocu said. “I said beforehand that if we could keep a clean sheet at home it would put us in a good position for the second leg.”
With its numerical advantage from the 68th minute, Atletico pressed forward relentlessly but could not find a way through PSV’s defense.
“The only thing we missed was scoring a goal,” Simeone said.
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