KEVIN De Bruyne hit a brilliant winner as Manchester City claimed a place in the Champions League semi-finals with a stunning victory over Paris St Germain.
De Bruyne curled home a fine shot with 14 minutes of their last-eight tie at the Etihad Stadium remaining, securing a 1-0 victory and sending City through 3-2 on aggregate.
City put their fans through a nervy ride after Sergio Aguero missed a first-half penalty following an incident in which goalkeeper Kevin Trapp was perhaps lucky not to be sent off.
But backed by raucous fans in a club record European crowd of 53,039, Manuel Pellegrini's men held on to seal a historic result.
The atmosphere was one of the liveliest City have produced in the competition and, contrary to suggestions it might set the wrong tone, the fans' now traditional booing of the anthem actually energised the crowd.
It still took time for the game to warm up but after Zlatan Ibrahimovic continued his duel with Joe Hart by forcing the England goalkeeper to tip over his 15th-minute free-kick it set the tone for a night of frantic defending and squandered opportunities before De Bruyne's moment of sublime precision.
The Belgian, so often City's saviour of late, said: "In the first half I think we already deserved to be ahead but we knew the second half was going to be a tough game and I think we played the same, created some chances and it was good that we scored.
"We're in the half-final now so anything can happen. We know it's going to be a tough one but PSG wasn't an easy one either, so we're looking forward to it and we'll be ready to play the half-final."
Cristiano Ronaldo, another well used to rescuing his side, scored a hat trick to send Real Madrid into the semi-finals as the Spanish giants overturned a first-leg deficit in a 3-2 aggregate win over Wolfsburg.
Ronaldo, so often Real's saviour, cancelled out Wolfsburg's two-goal advantage within 88 first-half seconds at the Bernabeu and his free-kick in the 77th minute proved decisive as Real booked their spot in the last four in style.
Their German opponents would have felt optimistic of sealing a first-ever semi-final spot in Europe's elite club competition after winning 2-0 at the Volkswagen Arena last Wednesday, but they were simply unable to contain Ronaldo who wiped out the deficit with a tap-in and a bear-post header to send La Real on their way.
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