Manchester City are going to have to try double hard to fuck this one up because they look damn good.
It was an individual performance haphazard enough to earn a commentary-bestowed moniker of “The Nervous Upamecano” by the end. His was not the only head lost in the eye of a Manchester City storm, but it was certainly the most pronounced.
Julian Nagelsmann would have deeply enjoyed this evening’s viewing in between blanking Daniel Levy’s calls. Bayern Munich have recovered their footing in the Bundesliga sincebut Thomas Tuchel has, in the space of a week, presided over a first DFB-Pokal home defeat and the club’s biggest Champions League loss in six years.
When his players dismantle a supposedly elite opponent in this manner then you can at least understand why the point is raised each campaign. Manchester City at their best are so utterly brilliant, so ruthlessly, outrageously spectacular, that any occasion on which they don’t win the Champions League must be the result of self-sabotage. All being well, fair and even, no-one else can keep up.
That in itself will stick in the back of Manchester City minds. The margins at this level remain so fine. Less than two minutes separated the Dias block from Rodri’s drop of the shoulder on Musiala and curled effort with his weaker foot from outside the area, shaped around the excellent Joshua Kimmich.
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