Manchester City have the advantage going in to the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Linkoping.

Manchester City have the advantage going in to the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Linkoping after Nikita Parris and Jane Ross scored to ensure City head to Sweden with a two goal cushion.

Nick Cushing’s side went ahead after a frenzied five minutes in which the visitors had a penalty appeal waved away, before we won a spot kick of our own.

Defender Lisa Lantz saw red after she used her hands to deny Ross and Parris promptly dispatched the penalty into the top corner.

Ross was not to be denied though and when Mel Lawlely curled in a cross, the Scottish centre-forward sent a looping header over Hilda Carlen