Pep Guardiola watched Manchester City thrash Sporting Lisbon and declared: “We can do better.”
The Premier League champions and league leaders blew away their Portuguese hosts in the first leg of their Champions League Round of 16 clash with a five-goal thrashing.
The game was over as a meaningful context in the first half as City stormed into a four-goal lead at the break – the first time they have done so in the Champions League and the first time in the competition’s history that any side has done it in the knock-out stages.
