While Manchester City were playing out a rather dour 0-0 draw with Sporting Lisbon on Wednesday evening, one of the great Champions League nights was playing out a couple of thousand of kilometers away in Madrid.
Karim Benzema scored a 17-minute second-half hat-trick to earn Real Madrid a 3-2 aggregate win over Paris Saint-Germain, a remarkable comeback given that the French side held a two-goal advantage with 30 minutes left to play.
Imploding on Europe's biggest stage is nothing new for PSG but this collapse may have the lasting impact of persuading one of football's best attackers that his future lies elsewhere.
