Man City hammer Bayern Munich to ruin Champions League narrative for Thomas Tuchel

Thomas Tuchel said he had sleepless nights trying to think of ways to stop Manchester City.

After a devastating first leg at the Etihad, the Bayern Munich boss will be seeing blue shirts in his nightmares after his hopes of Champions League success took a giant step to being killed by a ruthless and rampant City side. Joao Cancelo, left out of the starting XI and booed as he came on against his parent club, does not look like his season slide will be stopping any time soon.

Pep Guardiola's side will take a 3-0 lead to Munich after one of their most complete performances in the Champions League and only the ghosts of tournaments past look like they can stop them booking another semi-final date. On the evidence available at the Etihad, that is all a bewildered and bedraggled Bayern could cling to.

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Cancelo could only watch on from the visiting bench and as well as the familiar sight of City bossing a game without him there was Thomas Tuchel manically, unsuccessfully, trying to stop it. We are only at half-time of this Champions League quarter-final yet there was more than enough for the former Chelsea boss to be agitated by aside from the Rodri thunderbolt that kicked off proceedings.

Tuchel's appointment was widely seen as ominous for Guardiola given the Champions League final in 2021, the third of three victories for Chelsea over City in a matter of weeks and by far the most painful for the Blues as their biggest chance of winning European glory eluded them in a toothless defeat. Aside from the obvious of the new manager having just three games before this one with a group of players whose form had seen Julian Nagelsmann sacked, the Tuchel hold over his rival was never as