In the Champions League, Manchester City's defence takes the lead as Rodri and Haaland dazzle against Bayern Munich.

Manchester, United Kingdom Manchester City dominated Bayern Munich 3-0 at the Etihad Stadium to take control of their Champions League quarterfinal matchup.

Although Pep Guardiola's team still needs to defeat Thomas Tuchel's Bayern next week, goals from Rodri, Bernardo Silva, and Erling Haaland put them one step closer to the semifinals.

Haaland scored one goal in the second half to bring his season total to 45 goals, which is the highest ever for a Premier League player in a single season. Rodri's first-half goal was a stunning strike.

Gracious, the incongruity. It was Rodri's rejection from the City group for the 2021 Heroes Association last against Thomas Tuchel's Chelsea which overwhelmed the development to this tie, so obviously it must be the Spanish midfielder who crushed in the pivotal first objective here.

It was a great strike, twisted into the top corner with his left foot after Silva had played with several Bayern safeguards on the right, yet in addition filled in as a sign of that evening in Portugal when he was shockingly avoided with regard to the group and Chelsea secured the Bosses Association title.

It stays an idea two years on, to such an extent that Guardiola was approached to make sense of the choice at his news meeting on Monday. He declined, and maybe we won't ever know whether he laments leaving Rodri on the seat against Tuchel's Chelsea, however he'll be cheerful he picked him against Tuchel's Bayern.

On the off chance that an objective eventually assists City with winning the Heroes Association this season, the inquiries to Guardiola about past disappointments will at long last stop. In a tie that set the two competition top picks in opposition to one another, City are in shaft position in front of the second leg in Munich one week from now.

For all the discussion of Haaland's record-busting season before objective, it very well may be City's protection which turns out to be vital to at last winning the Heroes Association.

Guardiola's group have consistently scored objectives yet their sensational European ways out have quite often highlighted messiness at the back. Monaco scored multiple times across two legs as City went out in the last-16 of every 2017. Three progressive quarterfinal exits in succession somewhere in the range of 2018 and 2020 highlighted Liverpool scoring multiple times, Tottenham scoring multiple times and Lyon getting three in an oddball game in light of Coronavirus. City scored five in their two elimination rounds legs against Genuine Madrid last season yet yielded six, including three at the Etihad Arena.

They had flimsy minutes against Bayern, especially right off the bat in the final part when they appeared to fail to keep a grip on the game, yet they've presently kept six clean sheets in their last eight matches and haven't surrendered more than one objective in a game since beating Tottenham 4-2 on Jan. 19.

It helps having a deadly striker like Haaland front and center yet one more perfect sheet for Ederson at the Allianz Field one week from now and City will book a third progressive Bosses Association elimination round.

Bayern could have liked their possibilities going through had they gotten back to Germany only 1-0 down yet it will take something uniquely great for the ruling Bundesliga champions to advance from here. After Rodri's superb first objective, City scored two times in six last part minutes to give Bayern a mountain to move with both Silva and Haaland exploiting Upamecano blunders