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Pep Guardiola was being afforded a grandstand view. He was, as usual, just metres from the action, watching obsessively from the tiny rectangle of dotted lines that demarcated his territory for the evening. In front of him the game was swaying to and fro, but his side were far from having their own way. His meticulously laid plans, delivered in passionate but deliberate words to his team before kickoff, were not yet bearing fruit.
Much of this was down to one man, a player the then-Bayern manager knew little about at the time.