Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany said they played like a team “hungry for success” as they put a poor recent run behind them to move to the verge of the Champions League quarter-finals with a 3
Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany said they played like a team “hungry for success” as they put a poor recent run behind them to move to the verge of the Champions League quarter-finals with a 3-1 win at Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday.
City had lost their previous three matches, denting their Premier League hopes with back-to-back defeats by Leicester City and Tottenham Hotspur and exiting the FA Cup with a humiliating 5-1 loss at Chelsea.
They put in a barn-storming first-half display in Ukraine, however, and held off a Kiev fightback after the break to edge closer to a maiden appearance in the last eight of the Champions League.
City have failed at this hurdle for the last two seasons, although both those ties were against Barcelona.
“The performance was good, with a lot of high pressing, 3-1 is a good result and we are happy with it,” Kompany told BT Sport. “We are going into the second leg with a fairly good chance to go through, which has not been the case before. We looked like a team that was hungry for success tonight.”
