• Man City were well on top after taking an early lead
  • Sporting scored twice in the first four minutes of the second half
  • Erling Haaland missed a penalty in City's third consecutive defeat

Manchester United-bound Ruben Amorim led Sporting CP to a historic 4-1 Champions League victory at home to Manchester City on Tuesday night.

Phil Foden gave Pep Guardiola's visitors the lead early on in a one-sided first half before the sought-after Viktor Gyokeres nabbed the first of three goals shortly before the interval. City came out for the restart but left their minds in the dressing room, conceding twice in the opening four minutes of the second half.

While Erling Haaland wasted the chance to get City back in the contest from 12 yards, Gyokeres completed his treble in the 81st minute with his second penalty of a night to remember for Amorim, who will not forget his final home game as Sporting coach in a hurry.

How the game unfolded

An emotionally charged Jose Alvalade ignored the referee's opening whistle, belting out a deafening hymn throughout the opening exchanges which only ended moments before Foden's fourth-minute opener.

Three sky blue players surrounded Hidemasa Morita in a pincer movement. Foden robbed the Japanese midfielder, tiptoeing to the edge of Sporting's box before drilling a low shot through a holographic attempt at a save from Franco Israel.

City had a suffocating monopoly of the first half, dominating possession and territory while squandering a glut of golden scoring chances. Erling Haaland was a surprisingly guilty culprit for the visitors. Sporting's number nine, Gyokeres wasted his side's only forward thrust of the opening half-hour, but made up for it with a crisp 38th-minute equaliser completely against the run of play.

Gyokeres' stabbed effort, which he bounced into the turf and over Ederson, was the hosts' first touch in City's penalty area.

After the break, Sporting needed just 20 seconds to weave their way forward from kick off, exchanging eight passes between seven players which ended with Maximiliano Araujo blasting past Ederson.

Guardiola had scarcely put down his water bottle by the time the referee whistled for a Sporting penalty. Francisco Trincao lured Josko Gvardiol into a needless barge, winning a spot kick which Gyokeres battered into the bottom corner, giving Sporting a two-goal cushion after five, breathless second-half minutes.

City belatedly regained their composure, invariably through the unwavering wriggling of Bernardo Silva. Amorim's former Portugal teammate snuck into Sporting's box with a crisp one-two before firing a shot which ricocheted onto Ousmane Diomande's raised arm. After a VAR review, City were awarded a very dubious penalty which Haaland clattered against the crossbar.

Gyokeres was given the opportunity to show more composure from 12 yards once again. Sporting were the beneficiaries of another soft decision, as the former Lisbon-based player, Matheus Nunes, was penalised for a light tug in the box. The remorseless Swede blasted in his third, thereby consigning Manchester City to a third consecutive defeat across all competitions.