Manchester City 1-0 Atlético Madrid: Champions League quarter-final, first leg – live

Kevin De Bruyne’s post-match thoughts

“It was a very hard game. They played so defensively and they’re solid. They played almost 5-5-0 and it’s very hard to find spaces. I would recommend to anyone who says something about our performance to try it on the training pitch.

“In the circumstances we played pretty well. You need to be calm, patient, give nothing away and keep trying to find the spaces. You’re gonna lose balls because it’s so compact, but we had a couple of chances in the second half and we managed to take one. I made a run and Phil found me perfectly. I needed to stay composed and luckily I did.

“[On the aggro in the last 10 minutes] It’s the way they play. It’s their style and there’s no point us trying to fight them because that’s not our way. We handled it pretty well.”

That was a slightly odd final 10 minutes, in which Atletico Madrid’s main focus seemed to be trying to kick Jack Grealish as often and as hard as possible. Overall it’s a reasonable result for both sides, which kicks the tie down the road.

City had to work so hard to break down a superb Atletico defence. In the end the substitute Phil Foden broke the game open with two or three exceptional passes, the first of which created the winning goal for Kevin De Bruyne.

Peep peep peep!

90+2 min Now Vralsjko is booked for a snide foul on Grealish. Then Cunha goes down off the ball, and Ederson is booked for kicking the ball away. That was all a bit weird, Ederson did nothing wrong. Vrsaljko is still sledging Grealish.

90+1 min Two minutes of added time.

90 min Atletico have booted Grealish all round the park since he came on. Correa has another go and misses, so Vrsaljko deliberately blocks him off instead – and the referee gives a foul against Grealish!

88 min “Sometimes watching Foden as a false nine is a crime,” says Yash Gupta. “The right side is his best position, where he has the freedom to join the forward line or drop deep. And it brings his fantastic passing into the game.”

I agree, although I don’t think you should regard yourself as a criminal just for watching a football match.

87 min Foden has been terrific since coming on as substitute. He finds De Bruyne on the right of the area with an outrageous outside-of-the-foot pass. De Bruyne’s cutback is cleared and then Foden, backing up the play, has a shot blocked inadvertently by De Bruyne.

86 min De Bruyne thrashes over from 20 yards. In a two-legged tie the difference between 1-0 and 2-0 is huge, at least one goal.

85 min Gabriel Jesus is booked, I think for dissent, which means he’ll miss the second leg.

83 min Correa is booked for hoofing the ball in Grealish’s face when he was on the floor. It threatens to kick off, with Guardiola dragging Grealish off the field and away from trouble. That’s more like the Atletico Madrid we know and love.

81 min: Atletico substitution Thomas Lemar replaces Joao Felix, who spent most of the night playing as a second left-back.

80 min: Chance for City! De Bruyne’s low shot from 15 yards is kicked away by Savic in the six-yard box. The chance came after a mesmerising slalom from Foden, who beat Kondogbia and Reinildo near the byline. His cutback was blocked and then Bernardo teed up De Bruyne, who didn’t connect as cleanly as usual.

79 min Vrsaljko’s cross from the right is miscontrolled by Cunha, who had nipped in front of Stones. It wasn’t an easy ball to take as it bounced just in front of him. But had he done so he would have been one on one with Ederson.

77 min Kondogbia earns a free-kick just past the halfway line, which allows Atletico to throw their defends forward. It’s not a great delivery, however, and Laporte heads clear.

75 min De Bruyne is a bit fortunate to escape a yellow card for an overzealous foul on Matheus Cunha. He’ll miss the second leg if he is booked.

74 min Atletico would have taken this score before the game. They’d take it now, too, but after defending so well they will be frustrated by the goal. It looked like Felipe, who has been excellent all night, was caught slightly on his heels. Either way it was the first time all night that City were able to play through the eye of the needle.

72 min Those touches before the goal were Foden’s first of the game.

It was an expertly taken goal from Kevin De Bruyne. Rodri found Foden in a bit of space, and I mean a bit, 25 yards from goal. He…