USADaily - Kevin De Bruyne curled his right foot around the ball, as if it was the simplest thing in the world. In reality, it has taken fortunes to get here. Financial fortunes, and a massive investment in sweat and tears, tooYet here it is, Manchester City in the Champions League last four. De Bruyne made sure of it, with a goal that confirms his extraordinary worth. It looked a leap of faith when City paid £56m for a player who had been unable to cut it with Chelsea in the Premier League. Yet De Bruyne looked a class act again last night, his goal coming just at the moment when City were most vulnerable to a breakaway goal, and a sudden exit.
And you can’t say that Manchester City don’t deserve to be there. They were the underdogs but in the end they have gone through with a surprising degree of comfort at the expense of a hugely underwhelming Paris Saint-Germain, who suffer their fourth consecutive last-eight exit. The French champions played without any urgency, rarely threatened, defended badly, got it wrong tactically and Laurent Blanc is going to have to answer some difficult questions. This was supposed to be the year when they made the next step. Alas. Still, City were worthy winners.
Kevin de Bruyne scored another excellent goal and their much maligned defence handled PSG’s much vaunted attack. City march on, but I’ll end on a note of caution: there’s still going to have to be an improvement if they play one of the big three of Barcelona, Bayern Munich or Real Madrid. Thanks for reading and emailing. Night.
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