Champions League: Manchester City keep their cool amid Atletico Madrid's fire and fury to reach semifinals

Certainly, this was nothing like City at their best, but they did enough to advance

Amid the fire and fury of the Wanda Metropolitano, Manchester City kept their cool. Their progress to the Champions League semifinals was not pretty and yet that is not something that Pep Guardiola ought to mind at all.

After all, Atletico Madrid had set out to ruffle feathers. In the end, all they did was work themselves into a rage that saw Felipe red carded, Stefan Savic lucky to receive just a booking for a headbutt and Diego Simeone only able to sarcastically applaud. Ultimately, they had found the English champions to be too tough a nut to crack.

Simeone had vowed not to change his approach from the first leg. You could not accuse him of failing to deliver on that promise. Atletico Madrid showed precious little inclination of allowing this contest to open up, Thomas Lemar might have been a more progressive presence in midfield and there might have been the same flashed crosses to no one and half counters, but there were not any real moments to test Ederson in the City goal.