His first touch (from Foden) dampened it and with his second he passed it (the ball) through the sea of lost souls formerly known as the Real Madrid defence. A tangle of flailing limbs nearly put City’s third goal into their own net. At that moment, the tie seemed sentenced, Real Madrid seemed finished, skewered…
They could have left the tie sentenced in the first hour. Instead, the team that craves control got into Madrid’s field.
