MANCHESTER-ENGLAND__ For a club that has endured some agonising luck in the Champions  League over the years, Manchester City will feel that they hit the jackpot on the night that Pep Guardiola`s team qualified for the quarterfinals by sending Real Madrid Crashing out of the competition with a 2_1 victory Friday.

Not only did City bring an end to Zinedine Zidane`s incredible run of success in the tournament with Real__This was the first time Zidane had suffered an elimination from the Champions League as coach__Guardiola`s players walked off the pitch at the Etihad Stadium to be greeted by the news that Cristiano Ronaldo and Juventus will not be blocking their path to European glory in the final eight tournament in Lisbon next week following their shock exit at the hands of Lyon in Turin, Italy.

City ended the hopes of one juggernaut Real themselves but Lyon removed another in the shape of Juve, and that is only good for Guardiola and his team. Lyon will be no pushover at Estadio Jose Alvalade next Saturday the French club beat City at the Etihad in last season group stage before earning a 2-2 draw at home but after comfortably dispatching Real in this delayed round of 16 tie, City will travel to Lisbon knowing that they have arguably their best ever chance to win the Champions League for the fist time.

 Guardiola, unsurprisingly, insisted that his team cannot be complacent against Lyon after this victory.

It is one step Guardiola said if we think that is enough we will show how small we are. If you want to win you have to beat the big clubs but we are here to try and win the Champions League. 

Man City`s rotten Champions League luck has turned