All of Europe's biggest clubs will be worried about Pep Guardiola's side after yet another convincing win against usually stubborn opposition
Pep Guardiola insisted on Monday he had no idea whether Europe's grandest clubs would be worried about Manchester City in the Champions League this season. If they were not before, surely they will be now.
Ok, so everybody expected City to coast through against Basel, and all the evidence suggests that is exactly what they will do following a 4-0 first-leg win in Switzerland.
It is hard to argue that this game was trickier than most people gave credit for, given the emphatic scoreline, but Basel have beaten Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Manchester United twice at St Jakob Park in recent years, and only lost narrowly to Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain.