Manchester City got their Champions League campaign up and running with a 4-0 rout of Slovan Bratislava on Tuesday, with Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden, Erling Haaland and James McAtee scoring. (More Football News)
The Premier League champions set upꩲ camp in Slovan's half and laid siege to their goal for the duration of the contest at the Stadion Tehelne Pole.
They oꦅnly needed eight minutes to make the breakthrough as Gundogan scored his first goal since returning to the club after a single season at Barcelon🐓a, with his shot deflecting in off Kyriakos Savvidis.
Foden then doubled City's lead with his first goal of the season in the 15th minute, latching onto a pass from Jeremy Doku and curling a strike 🦩into the bottom corner.
Haaland killed the game as a contest just before the hour mark, sprinting onto Rico Lewis's pass then stepping around goalkeeper Dominik Takac before slotting into the empty net for his 42nd goal in Europe's prem🍬ier club c𒐪ompetition.
Foden then added an assist to 🦩his earlier goal in the 74th minute, teeing up youngster McAtee for his first ever City goal with a dinked pass.
City, win👍ners of the 2022-23 Champions League, opened this season's campaign with a 0-0 draw w♋ith Inter and now sit fourth in the standings. Slovan, meanwhile, are 35th after also losing 5-1 to Celtic on matchday one.
Data Debrief: City equal United record
City's victory ♊saw them stretch their unbeaten run in the Champions League to 25 matches, with a penalty shoot-out defeat to Real Madrid last season the only blot 💯on their record since the start of the 2022-23 campaign.
It is the joint-longest streꦆak in the competition's history, alongside Manchester United's run between September 2007 and May 2009, which included them lifting the trophy in 20✱07-08.
City have൩ won 17 and drawn eight of their matches in that run, plundering 64 goals to just 38 by United on their streak.
They will have the chance to🀅 overhaul their neighbours outri𒉰ght on matchday three, when they host Sparta Prague.
