Manchester City and Atletico Madrid have booked their passage into the Champions League quarter-finals after an evening that didn’t produce a single goal in 210 minutes of football.

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini would have wanted two things leading into their Champions League Round of 16 Second Leg tie against Dynamo Kiev – a clean sheet and an injury free night. He only got the clean sheet.

If you were educating an alien and informed them that the Champions League was the greatest club competition in the world, he would have thought you were a Joe Hart short of a football team. The game was littered with petty fouls, stoppages and two Man City injuries that may impede the clubs progress in this competition.

Man City captain and talisman Vincent Kompany limped out of the action as early as the fifth minute after what appeared to be a calf muscle injury. 18-minutes later and City’s other centre-back Nicolas Otamendi also headed down the tunnel. Fortunately, for the blue half of Manchester they had Eliaquim Mangala and Martin Demichelis on the bench and were facing a Dynamo Kiev side who had picked up the wrong script.