Sergio Aguero hit a hat trick after failing to score from two early penalties as Manchester City thrashed Steaua Bucharest 5-0 in the first leg of their Champions League playoff on Tuesday, virtually assuring a sixth straight season in the group stage.On a night when Citys movement and passing bewildered its Romanian opponent and showed new coach Pep Guardiolas methods are already taking effect, Aguero had one spot kick saved and saw another clip the top of the bar either side of David Silvas 13th-minute opening goal.Aguero sidefooted home from the edge of the area in the 41st, Nolito scored his first City goal, before Aguero added two more in the final 12 minutes in the Romanian capital.The result was amazing, Guardiola said, but the way we played, I am really satisfied.In other first leg matches, Borussia Moenchengladbach beat Young Boys 3-1 away and Andrija Pavlovics first-half goal earned Copenhagen a 1-0 win over APOEL. Ajax and Rostov drew 1-1, and Dinamo Zagreb drew 1-1 with Salzburg.There are five more playoff matches on Wednesday, including FC Porto vs. Roma and Villarreal vs. Monaco.The second legs take place next week -- and Citys return match against Steaua should be nothing more than a formality.The Romanian team is far from the force that won the European Cup in 1986 and reached another final in `89. Steaua couldnt get close to a City team that is embracing the tactics of Guardiola, including a quicker circulation of the ball and the full backs tucking into central midfield at times.And in Aguero, Guardiola has one of the most lethal strikers around. The Argentina forward got off the mark in the Premier League with a penalty against Sunderland at the weekend, but couldnt score from the spot against Steaua in two attempts.Instead, Aguero had to settle for a pinpoint finish from Raheem Sterlings touch to make it 2-0. He exchanged passes with Nolito before drilling home his second goal in the 78th, and then ran onto Fernandinhos pass to curl a shot in off the post in the 89th.If you score three goals, no one will care about the two penalties, City playmaker Kevin De Bruyne said.We played a really good game, De Bruyne added. It was 5-0, could be eight, nine. Its a really good advantage for next week.City was a Champions League semifinalist last season, losing to eventual champion Real Madrid. Guardiola never failed to reach the semifinals in his spells with Barcelona and Bayern Munich over a seven-year period.Brazilian forward Raffael set Moenchengladbach on its way to victory at Young Boys by scoring in the 11th and was instrumental in the German sides third goal, his shot being turned into the net by home defender Alain Rochat.Andre Hahn scored Moenchengladbachs other goal in Switzerland, meaning Germany is well-placed to have four representatives in the group stage, like England.Davy Klaassen scored a penalty to earn Ajax a draw at home to Rostov, which took the lead through Christian Noboas free kick.In Zagreb, Valentino Lazaros header put Salzburg in front in the 59th before Marco Rog equalized from the penalty spot after he was fouled.Cyber Monday Nike Shoes . Kozun faked to the forehand and beat Monsters starter, Calvin Pickard, pad side in the second round for the winner. Spencer Abbott also scored in the shootout for the Marlies (25-13-4). 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In a very sort of twisted way, once you admit and you sort of come to grips with what has happened, Im excited to dig into a different part of his development.Brown noted hes no stranger to this sort of speed bump in developing his young players.I think go back to Year 1, youre with Nerlens [Noel], and then you go to Joel [Embiid], and then you go to Jahlil [Okafor], and now Im with Ben, Brown said. And its holistic. You can sit in a room and you can look at edits of some of the great point guards, some of the great do-all-type players, multi-purpose-type players, that we all sort of look at Ben as growing into. So theres a classroom aspect of it.There is an opportunity to break down his shot part of it, Brown added. There is ann amazing reality that when we are now in this new practice facility that is a basketball health club, you can just move him within a tight proximity over to the sports science side of things: the wet area, the rehab, prehab, massage therapy area.dddddddddddd Then he can walk a few feet on the court and work on his shot. Then he can go a few feet over and go into a beautiful room to watch video on a very professional large screen. We did not have any of that where we were previously with those other three high draft pick injuries. And so the holistic approach is what Im talking about with Ben, and I look forward to sort of leading that charge.Simmons was injured Friday during the final training camp scrimmage at Stockton University in New Jersey. The Sixers said Simmons rolled an ankle; X-rays and an MRI revealed a fractured fifth metatarsal bone.The Australian forward played at LSU last season. He missed time early during his stay with the Tigers while waiting for an ankle injury to heal, and Simmons also left an NBA Summer League contest in July after suffering cramps in both legs. ' ' '