Manchester City engineered a 2-0 win over Borussia Monchengladbach in the UEFA Champions League last 16 first-leg tie on Wednesday evening.
Aymeric Laporte, Kyle Walker, Rodri, Phil Foden and Gabriel Jesus headlined City's five changes from Sunday's win over Arsenal in the Premier League.
City, who enjoyed a lot of the ball early on, broke the deadlock when Bernardo Silva headed in a perfect delivery from Joao Cancelo two minutes to the half-hour mark after possession turnover.
The Citizens threw numbers in the opposite half before halftime in pursuit of a second goal, but in the end went into the tunnel a goal ahead.
Gladbach targeted a reply after halftime as a ball from Denis Zakaria nearly cut open the Citizens before an acrobatic back-heel from Alassane Plea had goalkeeper Ederson Moraes scrambling.
The Citizens however made it two midway in the second half after Jesus beat Nico Elvedi to a cutback from Silva to tap home, as Riyad Mahrez entered for Raheem Sterling.
With Sergio Aguero introduced in the final minutes, the Premier League leaders had chances to add to their tally however settled for a 2-0 win in Budapest.
Real Madrid left it late to see off a ten-man Atalanta 1-0 in the UEFA Champions League last 16 first-leg on Wednesday evening.
Limited changes from Los Blancos saw Mariano Diaz removed from Saturday's win over Real Valladolid with Isco introduced, whilst Atalanta stayed unchanged from the thumping of Napoli.
Atalanta suffered a blow in the first 20 minutes when Remo Freuler picked up a straight red card after he brought down Ferland Mendy in a promising area.
The reduced set of players led the host to make a tactical substitution ten minutes later in Mario Pasalic for Duvan Zapata.
A big chance fell for Madrid before halftime when a ball from a free-kick by Toni Kroos spotted Carlos Casemiro, but goalkeeper Pierluigi Gollini made a great save to parry the Brazilian's header.
Madrid emerged for the second half eager to bag the opener from an instinctive attempt by Vinicius Junior, but strong defending from Raphael Gosens denied the attacker.
Atalanta's resistance were broken in the last four minutes when Mendy curled a pass from Luka Modric into the bottom-corner after carving an angle outside the area, as it finished 1-0.
