Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva and Phil Foden strike for Pep Guardiola’s side in the Danish capital
are like The Terminator. A relentless foe that refuses to be cowed no matter what comes at them. It was Copenhagen’s courage in answering the sparkling Kevin De Bruyne’s opener with Magnus Mattsson’s leveller, the Belgian then creating Bernardo Silva’s second.
Guardiola sent out the XI he assesses as his current best, which meant Jack Grealish operating wide instead of Jérémy Doku, John Stones preferred to Manuel Akanji to partner Rúben Dias in central defence, and Nathan Aké shuffled across to left-back, for Josko Gvardiol. Ten minutes had gone. Too soon to consider this as a long night ahead already for Jacob Neestrup’s men? Perhaps not because this time the ever-moving De Bruyne materialised on the left and flighted the ball just too high for a leaping Erling Haaland.
They are so good only a moment is needed to rediscover this. It came in a sublime sequence that featured Rodri chipping left to Doku who dipped the ball over for Haaland to fly at, volleying marginally over. In the opening minutes of the second half City hogged the ball and moved those in white about. But, then. Doku miscontrolled, the hosts claimed a corner, Mattsson dropped this in from the right and Elyounoussi went agonisingly close.
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