Updated March 16, 2017 09:27:49

Photo: Monaco's Tiemoue Bakayoko celebrates his headed winner against Manchester City. (AP: Claude Paris)

AS Monaco has stunned Manchester City to reach the Champions League quarter-finals, overturning a two-goal first-leg deficit with a 3-1 victory in a pulsating clash to go through on away goals.

French prodigy Kylian Mbappe, Fabinho and Tiemoue Bakayoko scored for Monaco on a memorable European night for the principality club, which underlined its growing status as one of the continent's most exciting sides.

City, which won the first leg 5-3, was completely overwhelmed in the first half and fell two goals behind, but reacted after the break and Leroy Sane reduced the arrears as Monaco seemed to run out of steam.

Monaco, which was without the injured Radamel Falcao, is the only French side left in the competition after Paris St Germain was knocked out by Barcelona.

In the Thursday morning's (AEDT) other match, Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Jan Oblak proved to be the hero as the Spanish side reached the Champions League quarter-finals for the fourth year in a row after drawing 0-0 with Bayer Leverkusen in an open last-16 second leg.

Slovenia international Oblak made an outstanding triple save to deny Julian Brandt and Kevin Volland in the second half and he made further impressive stops late in the game to shut out the Germans and secure a 4-2 aggregate success.

Atletico had the better of the first half and it took a top-class save from Oblak's opposite number Bernd Leno to prevent Angel Correa giving Atletico the lead before the break, flying to his left to tip away a goalbound shot.

The impressive Correa nearly crafted an outstanding goal in the second half but could not find the target while top scorer Antoine Griezmann also came close to putting Atletico out of sight, sending a classy chip just wide.

Reuters

Topics: champions-league, soccer, sport, monaco, france, england

First posted March 16, 2017 08:37:51