Pep Guardiola is pleased Manchester City can turn their attentions towards the Premier League title race with Champions League progress in the bag following a 1-1 draw at Borussia Monchengladbach.

David Silva netted an equaliser on the stroke of half-time for City, who fell behind when Raffael drove home emphatically for the hosts.

The second half became disjointed as Gladbach’s Lars Stindl and City‘s Fernandinho were sent off in quick succession, but Barcelona’s victory over Celtic at Parkhead means City are through to the last 16 as runners-up in Group C behind the LaLiga champions.

“The first part of the season, it is so important to qualify for the next round and we did it –now we can focus on the Premier League,” said Guardiola on BT Sport, following his latest tussle with a Gladbach outfit that regularly caused Bayern Munich problems during his three seasons in the Bundesliga

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