hello, this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: manchester city come from behind to win, putting five past monaco in the champions league. and on a night of goals, last year's beaten finalists atletico madrid win 4—2 away to bayer leverkusen. plus angelique kerber is just four wins away from regaining the world number one ranking. hello and welcome to the programme, where we start with the ljefachampions % in the last 16 on tuesday. manchester city and atletico madrid were the winners on a night when m goals were scored. manchester city beat monaco 5—3 at the etihad stadium, where raheem sterling opened the scoring for city after 26 minutes. radamel falcao then scored two goals for the french league leaders, and missed a penalty, as they came from behind to lead 2—1 and 3—2.

but each time monaco went in front they were pegged back by two goals from city's sergio aguero. it was 3—3 with 13 minutes to go, but late goals from john stones and leroy sane secured a 5—3 win for the english premier league side. we're still alive, especially for the performance, for the guys, for most of them the first experience in champions league. this kind of thing's champions league. this kind of things very hard for this club to achieve another step. because you know my opinion about that, monaco has more history in the champions league than us and you have to live these sorts of situations to be in trouble, to get better, to be a better club, to be a better team. huge compliment for the players to be there. don't give up never and to be there. don't give up never and to be there. don't give up never and to be there. that's why we're still alive. meanwhile, atletico madrid look well—placed to reach the quarter—finals.

antoine griezmann was among the scorers as last season's runners—up beat bayer leverkusen in germany. fernando torres completed the scoring in a 4—2 victory for atletico. the opening leg matches of the asian champions league group stages continued on tuesday. kashima antlers, who were runners up in the club world cup, were one of the teams in action. colm harrison has all the details the j—league champions kashima antlers made a winning start to their champions league campaign in group e but the team that took real madrid to extra time in december‘s clu b world madrid to extra time in december‘s club world cup final took a while to get going against ulsan hyundai. kanazaki finally get going against ulsan hyundai. ka nazaki finally broke the get going against ulsan hyundai. kanazaki finally broke the deadlock after 64 minutes but they had to wait until eight minutes from time to make the game safe, suzuki securing a 2—0 victory for last season's japanese double winners. they are two points clear of brisbane roar and their opponents who played out a goalless draw in queensland and most of that was due

to brisbane's jamie young, by far the busiest goalkeeper. in group f western sydney wanderers made an ignominious start to their bid for a second title after a goalless first half against