Good players make the difference in matches - and the top players make the difference in big matches.
Manchester City have a quite brilliant trio of Portuguese stars who all fall into the latter category, in Ruben Dias, Joao Cancelo and Bernardo Silva.
But when the chips were down in the Blues’ under-18 clash with table-topping Blackburn today, a 17-year-old winger from the beautiful Lisbon district of Sintra gave notice that he has all the attributed to join that distinguished trio in a few years.
