Champions League Review: City and Spurs top groups, Liverpool blow it

A round-up of the first night of Champions League dishes including Man City and Spurs topping their respective groups, and Liverpool blowing a three-goal lead in Spain.

Man City is the 9/2 second-favourite to win the Champions League after ending their Group Stage home record with three wins from three, but they left it late.

When Feyenoord visited the Etihad on the back of a winless run stretching as far back as October (Eredivision and Champions League), not many believed they would be the team to end Man City’s incredible run of 16 straight victories, but they nearly did.

The well drilled and marshalled defence kept City’s fearsome attackers at bay for most of the match, until Raheem Sterling exchanged passes with Ilkay Gundogan, before chipping the ball over the onrushing keeper to ensure City advance to the knockout stages at the top of the group with time running out.