The joint-biggest winning margin in a Champions League knockout phase away leg. The joint-biggest European away win in the club’s history, too. Five unanswered goals including, by your own admission, one of the best that you have ever seen. All in all, “a dream of a result”. But you’re Pep Guardiola, so you are still not entirely happy.
“Don’t misunderstand me, I’m more than delighted,” the Manchester City manager insisted in the bowels of the Estadio Jose Alvalade after this crushing 5-0 victory over Sporting Clube de Portugal that has made the return leg at the Etihad in three weeks’ time little more than a formality.
