Football: Man City crush Schalke 7-0 to reach Champions League quarter-finals

MANCHESTER: Manchester City powered into the Champions League quarter-finals on Tuesday as Sergio Aguero's double paved the way for a 7-0 rout of hapless Schalke in the last 16 second leg.

Pep Guardiola's side, who lifted the League Cup in February, remain on course for an unprecedented quadruple, sitting one point ahead of Liverpool at the top of the Premier League before this weekend's FA Cup quarter-final at Swansea. But City are one of the favourites to claim the trophy after Real Madrid and Paris Saint Germain crashed out and, on this evidence, Guardiola's players are up for the challenge of showing they are more mature than he believes.

Guardiola had claimed it would be a"dangerous situation" to underestimate Schalke, but the struggling Bundesliga team were never a realistic candidate to spring a surprise.Sprinting onto Kyle Walker's pass, Sterling crossed for Aguero to shoot against a post in the opening moments. Aguero stepped up to nonchalantly chip the penalty down the middle as Ralf Fahrmann dived the wrong way.That opened the floodgates as Aguero quickly put the result beyond doubt three minutes later.

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