Manchester City’s rampant season gathered yet more momentum on Tuesday as the Premier League leaders fashioned a dramatic win in a penalty shootout at Leicester City after a 1-1 draw to reach the League Cup semi-finals.
Pep Guardiola’s City, even with a second-string team, looked to have booked their last-four place with a first-half Bernardo Silva goal until Leicester were awarded a soft-looking penalty seven minutes into stoppage time which Jamie Vardy converted.
After extra time produced no further goals, City goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, their hero with two saves in a penalty shootout win over Wolverhampton Wanderers in the previous round, again delivered, saving Riyad Mahrez’s final penalty in the 4-3 shootout win.