The 24-hour delay gave City boss Pep Guardiola further time to consider his failure to beat Borussia in any of his final four Bundesliga attempts with Bayern Munich, while his current club had not won their opening home Champions League group game in five previous attempts.
Those unflattering statistics rarely looked like
being extended after Aguero - currently serving a three-match domestic
suspension for an elbow on West Ham defender Winston Reid that the Football Association described as "brutal" earlier on Wednesday - converted Aleksandar Kolarov's eighth-minute cross.
The 28-year-old scored a penalty before the half hour
and, as City looked like failing to turn their second-half dominance
into further goals, he completed a treble to sit alongside the one he
claimed in last month's 5-0 win over Steaua Bucharest 13 minutes from time.
Aguero's replacement Kelechi Iheanacho
built on his goal Saturday's Manchester derby win by netting in
stoppage time to crown a tale of total domination for Guardiola's men -
something generally beyond previous City vintages in Europe.
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