It is not often that you find yourself so comfortable in the knockout stages of the Champions League that you can afford to bring on your veteran third-choice goalkeeper as a second-half substitute, but then this is Manchester City we are talking about.
This last-16 tie against Sporting Clube de Portugal was effectively settled as a contest three weeks ago, so devastating were Pep Guardiola’s players that night in Lisbon, rendering this second leg a non-event.
