Manchester City opened their UEFA Champions League campaign with a 4-0 thrashing of Slovan Bratislava on Tuesday, with Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden, Erling Haaland and James McAtee scoring.
The Premier League champions camped in Slovan’s half and besieged their goal at the Tehelné Pole stadium for the duration of the match.
They needed just eight minutes to make the breakthrough as Gundogan scored his first goal since returning to the club after just one season at Barcelona when his shot was found by Kyriakos Savvidis.
Foden then doubled City’s lead with his first goal of the season in the 15th minute, latching on to Jeremy Doku’s pass and curling a shot into the bottom corner.
Haaland wrapped up the game just before the hour mark when he sprinted onto Rico Lewis’ pass before rounding goalkeeper Dominik Takacs to tap into an empty net for his 42nd goal in Europe’s premier club competition.
Foden then added an assist to his earlier goal in the 74th minute, setting up youngster McAtee for his first ever City goal with a pinpoint pass.
City, the 2022-23 Champions League winners, opened this season with a 0-0 draw with Inter and are now fourth in the table. Slovan is 35th after losing 5-1 to Celtic on matchday one.
