Sergio Aguero leads the way as Man City crush Schalke to reach Champions League last eight, at the same time Juventus advance in Champions League with Ronaldo hat-trick

Axar.az reports that, there was a solemn apology from Schalke in the aftermath of this defeat, the second-biggest aggregate hiding in the history of the Champions League, one that seemed to acknowledge not just the margin of their opponent’s victory but also the manner of the demolition.

There were lots of goals for Manchester City, 10 over the two games, seven on the night and 26 in eight Champions League matches for Pep Guardiola’s side, but there was also a remorselessness about the way they went about it. No side in the last eight of the competition has scored more goals than City and while this might have had none of the drama of the miracle in Paris that those from Old Trafford pulled off, it is hard to think of a side more tuned up for this competition.

It is just the third time in City’s history that the club has reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League, although they have never looked more like they belong there. There is no question that the men from Schalke in high-viz green were dreadful on the night, caught between chasing the game or parking the bus, succeeded only in doing neither. By the end, however, they seemed mesmerised by something else too, perhaps the reputation of their opposition and the memory of City’s last-minute 10-man win in Gelsenkirchen two weeks earlier.

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Cristiano Ronaldo has struck a stunning hat-trick to earn Juventus a 3-0 win over Atletico Madrid and almost single-handedly mount a reversal that sent the Italians into the Champions League quarter-finals 3-2 on aggregate.

The ex-Real Madrid star put his former derby rivals to the sword once again as he bagged two headers and an 86th-minute penalty in a brutal turnaround in the last 16 second leg, after Juve lost 2-0 in Madrid.

Evergreen striker Ronaldo is the Champions League's record scorer with his treble taking him to 124 goals, while Atletico have scored a total of 118 in their history.

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