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Man City 2.0: Stones in midfield, career-best form from Jack Grealish and Erling Haaland proving HE is the missing piece... how Pep Guardiola has transformed his side after Champions League heartache against Real Madrid last season

With the clock at 89 minutes, Manchester City were inside Santiago Bernabeu with a 5-3 aggregate lead and a place in the Champions League final in sight. Then Rodrygo happened.

First he struck in the 90th minute, then the 91st, sending the game to extra-time, where Real Madrid would net a penalty through Karim Benzema to go through, dump City out and go on to beat Liverpool in the final.

'We were close. We were close,' a deflated Pep Guardiola said afterwards, processing another failed European campaign.

'But at the end, we could not reach.