Things didn’t look particularly promising when Isco put Real Madrid 1-0 up on the hour mark last night, with City coming under pressure from the home side.
However, a five-minute spell near the end of the game transformed the state of the tie and Pep Guardiola’s men now head into the second leg at the Etihad as favourites.
A lot of questions were answered by the Citizens, with the season running the risk of being a failure if they had been on wrong end of the result in the Bernabeu.
Press the next page as we take a look at five things we learned from City’s victory in Madrid yesterday.