The Belgian midfielder has been on a roll since the World Cup and he produced something sublime in the Spanish capital
had spent much of the game to that point chasing ghosts, had gone to half-time at 1-0 down, and seemed to be losing themselves once again in the white zone.
Towards half‑time Guardiola, dressed for the occasion in a skinny-fit undertaker’s suit, had begun to point and gesture and revolve his arms more urgently, seeing shapes, premonitions, ghosts, flickers of disaster. Madrid had been a lovely soft summery place at kick-off, a powder blue sky fading to grey above in the small hole between those towering steel struts. The Bernabéu is a Frankenstein’s monster of a super-ground, still half-built, bandages swinging in the breeze, a glimpse of gleaming steel sub‑shell peeking through here and there.
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