Aguero Treble Stuns Bayern Munich As City Triumph

Sergio Aguero's last-gasp heroics earned Manchester City a thrilling 3-2 win over 10-man Bayern Munich to boost their hopes of reaching the last 16 of the Champions League.

City looked to be heading to defeat against Bayern until Aguero popped up with two goals in the last five minutes to complete his hat-trick and turn the game on its head.

The home side got off to the perfect start when Medhi Benatia was sent off after 20 minutes for bringing down Aguero for a penalty and the Argentine scored from the spot.

However, Bayern stunned City as two goals before half-time from Xabi Alonso and Robert Lewandowski turned the game in the German side's favour.

City huffed and puffed in the second half, but Aguero came to their rescue with two deadly finishes to earn them a famous win in the Group E game.

After a bright start from City, Bayern created the first noteworthy chance of the game on nine minutes when Arjen Robben lofted a ball into the box and Sebastian Rode latched on to it to fire a shot goalwards, but Joe Hart stood up big to keep out the effort with his legs.

City won a penalty on 20 minutes when Aguero got on the wrong side of Medhi Benatia to latch onto Frank Lampard's pass and the Bayern defender brought the Argentine down inside the box to concede the spot-kick with referee Pavel Kralovec showing a straight red card to Benatia.

Aguero kept his cool from the spot to fire into the corner past Manuel Neuer for his 15th goal of the season and give City the perfect start.

Pep Guardiola decided to shuffle his pack after losing Benatia brining on Dante for Rode to shore up his backline, but despite their numerical disadvantage Bayern still looked dangerous.

Bayern drew level five minutes before the break when Xabi Alonso curled home a free-kick from the edge of the box after Eliaquim Mangala brought down Lewandowski.

Alonso appeared to catch Hart by surprise as he rolled the ball low rather than over the wall and the ball trickled into the bottom corner past a stranded Hart.

Things got even worse for City on the stroke of half-time as Lewandowski outmuscled Bacary Sagna to get on the end of Jerome Boateng's cross with the ball coming off his shoulder and looping over Hart to give Bayern an unlikely lead.