Manchester City vs Monaco as it happened: Sergio Aguero scores a brace as City come out on top
Relive Manchester City's heroic comeback in their eight-goal thriller against Monaco
Sergio Aguero struck twice as Manchester City fought back to beat Monaco 5-3 in a sensational Champions League clash at the Etihad Stadium.
City trailed 2-1 at half-time and 3-2 after an hour of a pulsating last 16 first leg encounter but finished with a flourish to peg back the exhilarating Ligue 1 leaders.
Radamel Falcao scored two and missed a penalty for the visitors while teenage star Kylian Mbappe also got on the scoresheet.
But City, who took an early lead through Raheem Sterling and were controversially denied a penalty themselves, roused themselves when it mattered with late goals from John Stones and Leroy Sane securing victory.
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And we're away! Falcao kicks off for Monaco.
1 min: Immediately Fernandinho goes haring in and concedes a free-kick just inside the City half, but Monaco waste it. City get themselves on the ball and Stones and Otamedi share a few passes before playing it back to Caballero.
But City are being closed down very quickly by Monaco, and they win a corner when Otamendi hurriedly clears, under pressure from Silva.
3 mins: First chance for City! They clear the corner and a cute pass from Aguero releases Sterling, but he pokes his cross-cum-shot attempt into the chest of Subasic.
5 mins: Caballero ain't no Bravo. The ball is played back to the City number 2 and, attempting to pass it out wide to Fernandinho, he boots it out of play for a Monaco throw-in.
6 mins: Bernardo Silva has made a bright start. He makes a winding run down the right and passes to Sidibe, who wins a corner when Fernandinho blocks his cross. The corner-kick is a deep one, and Toure easily clears.
8 mins: Better from City. Sane zips down the left before cutting inside and passing to Toure, who slips Silva into possession in the Monaco half. He then spots the run of an overlapping Sane on his left, but the young winger gets too much on his shot, and it sails harmlessly over the bar.
There's then the first booking of the game. Glik chops down Sane who makes the most of it, and the ref bites. Glik will now miss the second leg.
10 mins: Good chance for Silva to swing a cross in from out wide on the left ... but he fails to beat the firs man. Sane gets himself onto the ball and has a chance to fling it into the box himself, but miscues.
11 mins: Mbappe just demonstrated exactly why so many English clubs want to sign him. Monaco, on the counter-attack following that botched Sane cross, just swept down the other end of the pitch in seconds, with Mbappe bursting past a couple of players and almost opening up an opportunity to shoot.
He's eventually crowded out in the box and City clear.
14 mins: It's been a superb game so far with both sides looking dangerous down the wings.
And then a chance for Falcao! Bernardo Silva spins around Sane on the half-way line and picks out the run of Falcao with a sublime through ball which bisects Sagna and Otamendi, but the striker is shoved off the ball just as he's about to pull the trigger.
City then counter, with Subasic doing well to race off his line and prevent Ageuro from running through on goal.