Kevin De Bruyne highlighted the importance of Manchester City achieving the required result on Wednesday night.

City held Borussia Mönchengladbach to a 1-1 draw in Germany to clinch second position in Group C of the Champions League behind Barcelona.

It was a so-so performance from Pep Guardiola's side, who along with Gladbach finished with ten men, but Belgian playmaker De Bruyne feels the overall result was the major positive as they get set to advance to the Round of 16.

"The result in the end. After we got the red card we killed the game and that was the most important thing," he told BT Sport.

"It is not nice to see but we are through and that is the most important thing.

"It was very tough. They (Monchengladbach) are very compact and even before they scored they just wanted to defend."

Of David Silva's level just before half-time, De Bruyne added: "It was a good goal but it was a tough first half and we played even better in the second half.

“We can do better but that's not the most important today."

We are through, that was the most important thing today #uclpic.twitter.com/4Y9G5Avwbd
— Kevin De Bruyne (@DeBruyneKev) November 23, 2016