John Pierce: For anyone who's played sport to decent level the look on Kompanys face was so gutting, he's thinking will I ever play again

Joe Wedgwood: Absolutely awful to see @VincentKompany, external pull up again with injury. Has the character to come back stronger!

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Apparently Vincent Kompany has had 14 calf injuries since joining Manchester City in 2008 and 5 live report that the Belgian has done exactly that again this evening. How frustrating. 

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The game and the crowd have gone very flat now, that early injury blow is a sickener for CIty and their fans. Vincent Kompany just can't stay free of injury.

Andy Townsend
Ex-Republic of Ireland international on BBC 5 live

"Vincent Kompany is sick, he knew straight away, he just misjudged the bounce of the ball. That has typified his season, every time he has come back and tried to get form together, he has got injured."

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5 mins

Man City 0-0 Dynamo Kiev (Agg: 3-1)

Big news in the first five minutes. Vincent Kompany has pulled up injured after slipping to clear a ball, he knew instantly too. His face is a picture of rage and regret. He limps off to be replaced by Eliaquim Mangala. 

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Funny atmosphere tonight, it could be hard for the players and the fans to raise themselves for a game which feels done and dusted already. 

Hang on!

If Manchester City go through tonight, they'll be the seventh different English side to reach the quarter final stage of the Champions League.

Arsenal, Chelsea, Leeds, Liverpool, Man Utd and Tottenham have made it so far.

West Ham and Leicester to make it nine? 

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Andy Townsend
Ex-Republic of Ireland international on BBC 5 live

"We are talking about City and how they are gong to progress.

"The Dynamo Kiev team are going to have to produce something we have not seen them do before in England and that is win. They are technically sound and well organised. Do they have the belief to come here and turn the game around? I don't think they do."

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And we are under way in Manchester too.

Game on in the Calderon.

Ally McCoist
Former Scotland striker on BBC Radio 5 live

"It has got to that stage of the season where Manuel Pellegrini has to to pick his strongest team for every game.

"It is a strong team to win the game but also look at the Dynamo Kiev team who will be a big improvement from the first game.

"They MUST go through tonight, it will be an absolute disaster if they don't. City will want to advance in style though."

Here they come, a 75% full Etihad Stadium at a guess boo the Uefa anthem. Almost game time. 

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Interesting opint on two levels here.

a) do we agree.

and b) how big a part has Manuel Pellegrini played in those signings?

Man City: Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany, Otamendi, Clichy, Fernando, Fernandinho, Jesus Navas, Toure, Silva, Aguero. Subs: Caballero, Sterling, Kolarov, Bony, Mangala, Demichelis, Manu Garcia.

Dynamo Kiev: Shovkovskiy, Vida, Khacheridi, Dragovic, Antunes, Veloso, Yarmolenko, Garmash, Buyalsky, Gusev, Teodorczyk. Subs: Rudko, Danilo Silva, Yakovenko, Sydorchuk, Korzun, Gonzalez, Makarenko.

Referee: Ovidiu Alin Hategan (Romania) 

Francis Edwards: Stay: Aguero, De Bruyne and Hart. Everyone else has no desire to play for the club and no passion shown, only after cash.

Jonny Vegas: The question will be, which new players can City attract, if they fail to qualify for UCL

Josh Bainbridge: STAY: Hart, Kompany, Otamendi, Sagna, Zaba, Fernandinho, Silva, KDB, Sterling, Agüero, Kelechi the rest can leave

Just over 10 minutes to go until kick-off this evening at the Etihad Stadium.

Kiev need to score three times tonight to knock City out. They have never won an away game against an English team in European competition (D2 L11). They've also never scored more than one goal in those 13 trips to England.

Thomas Evans: Everyone is adamant Yaya is leaving, but Guardiola could potentially deploy him as a centre-back, as he did at Barcelona

That would be interesting...

Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone says his side have run into top form ahead of their Champions League last-16 game with PSV Eindhoven.

The two teams drew 0-0 in the Netherlands three weeks ago but Atletico have since won four La Liga games in a row.

"We've found a regularity and a more stable way of playing," said Simeone.

"What's important is that the goals come from different parts of the field."

Dark horses? They got to the final in 2014 of course.

Manchester City

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini: "For different reasons, that is the best team at the moment. It is a similar team to the one in Ukraine. 

"Jesus Navas is a very good player for us and works a lot. I had him at Malaga and he will give them problems in attack and be there for us in defrence.

"These is a different competition to the Premier League, we are not thinking about Norwich. We have to play the second leg now and focus on a good performance.

"We try to qualify for the next round playing well and winning."