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Manchester City played like a team ready to win the Champions League as they swatted aside Bayern Munich, according to Owen Hargreaves.
City beat Bayern 3-0 in the first leg of their quarter-final tie, with Pep Guardiola seeing off his former side to put one foot in the last four.
Guardiola and City have consistently come up short in the biggest moments in this competition since they first linked up in 2016.
There have been multiple collapses, while their only run to the final ended in defeat to current Bayern boss Thomas Tuchel, then in charge of Chelsea.
But Hargreaves, who played for both City and Bayern, saw something different in Tuesday’s performance at the Etihad Stadium.
“That’s how you win the Champions League,” the former midfielder said on BT Sport. “They were absolutely brilliant.
“Defensively, that was a completely different Manchester City. They were flawless.”
Ex-Bayern striker Mario Gomez, in his role on Prime Video, was similarly impressed by a City team who “have everything”.
“They have a goalkeeper [Ederson] who suits this team perfectly, defenders where you can see they love to go into every duel,” Gomez said.
“They have strategists who set the rhythm, one-on-one players on the wing who change every situation, and they have a killer up front [Erling Haaland] who scores goals out of nothing and then even hits wonderful crosses.
“I think if Bayern don’t manage the miracle in the second leg, we’ve seen the Champions League winners today. This team can also suffer – they have everything.”
