Man City v Brugge - 29 Jan 2025 Manchester City FC - Official Website of Man City F.C.

When I saw the fire before the game, at half-time I thought the journalists have the headline already. We were out. 

When you are out, you play with nothing to lose. We go forward. The first half was so dynamic but we missed the spark. 

Savinho help us like all the season when he play there. He was unbelievable. He changed the game and after five or ten minutes had won two or three corners. Our crowd reacted and we had the chances.

The way we play that way, Brugge had more chances in the second half than the first. In the first half when they were so tight and defended with man to man marking, we needed the quality, the spark, the one player to make the individual action to score and we missed it. Maybe we felt the pressure. 

Sometimes you are winning 2-0, you are scared to lose. When you are 1-0 down and out of the Champions League, you have nothing to lose. In the right moments we found the goals. It has been a really tough group stage but we did it, we are there. 

In two weeks we will be better than we are now because players will be back and we will have the new signings. We will play one of two giants. We’ll see what happens and how we arrive.

We'll bring you Pep's reaction to tonight's game as soon as we have it.

If you're in the UK, there will also be highlights and a full-match replay (for UK viewers only) coming at midnight.

Don't go anywhere just yet!

And a special one too!

He ran Kovacic pretty close for that Man of the Match award, for me!

Every team in the Champions League is a tough one. First of all we are happy we are thought because it was a tough group stage for us. It was not easy. We are through which is most important. Whoever comes next will be difficult, so it doesn’t matter.

It’s obviously a game with a lot of pressure, we had to win. The first half was not bad, but we just couldn’t score, or get chances. Then we conceded. In the end, we are happy that we scored and that we could win the game. In the end we had a really good game I think.

On Pep's half-time team talk: I don’t know if it was one of the biggest ones, but it was good for sure. Because we came out very well. We knew we needed to step up because the first half was not enough. Second half we showed great character and great desire to win and go through. The crowd was behind us, it was an amazing atmosphere today.

His incredible goal got us level! A true driving force at the heart of midfield.

And look at that beaming smile!

We know we'll face one of those two giants of European football in the play-off round after we finished 22nd and they came 11th and 12th respectively.

We'll find out who on Friday morning.

We're just waiting for the other games to finish before we know for sure the two teams we could draw on Friday.

The players are on the pitch shaking hands while we wait to find out the two teams we could draw on Friday.

Club Brugge are also doing the same as it looks like they have secured their qualification too.