Manchester City defender Nathan Ake has revealed that during his side's Champions League win over RB Leipzig yesterday morning, his father passed away.<\/p>\n
Ake nodded in from a Jack Grealish corner to open the scoring, en route to a 6-3 win for City. It was just his second goal for the club since making a $77 million move from Bournemouth last year.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old said his father died just minutes after the goal was scored.<\/p>\n
READ MORE:<\/strong> Furious skipper taunts home crowd after winner<\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Penalty chaos in 'strange' Champions League opener<\/a><\/p>\n "The past few weeks have been the toughest of my life, my dad has been very ill and there was no more treatment possible. I was lucky to have a lot of support from my fiancee, family and friends," Ake wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n "Yesterday after a difficult time I scored my first Champions League goal, and only a few minutes after he passed away peacefully with my mum and my brother by his side.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CT4h-16oQWR\/<\/a><\/p>\n "Maybe it was meant to be, watching me play always made him proud and happy. I know you're always with me, you will always be in my heart and this one was for you dad."<\/p>\n Watch Messi, Neymar, Ronaldo and football's biggest superstars in the<\/strong><\/em> UEFA Champions League<\/strong><\/em><\/a> with every match streaming ad-free, live and on-demand only on Stan Sport from September 15. Start your seven day free trial<\/strong><\/em> here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n It was the opening score in what ended up being a nine-goal thriller, as City were far too strong for their German rivals.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Kohli quits captaincy to 'give myself space'<\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Major shake-up to solve tennis' biggest problem<\/a><\/p>\n Pep Guardiola's men sit outright top of their group after the first matchday, as the might of PSG were stifled by Belgian side Club Brugge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Despite all three of Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi starting the game, the Parisians couldn't find an answer for Brugge after both sides scored in the first half.<\/p>\n Manchester City will continue their Premier League campaign this weekend against Southampton.<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Manchester City defender Nathan Ake has revealed that during his side's Champions League win over RB Leipzig yesterday morning, his father passed away. Ake nodded […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130095,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130093\/revisions\/130095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}