Just last season, Manchester City still had arguably as fine a finisher as English football has ever seen among their ranks on their way to their first Champions League final. A year later, Sergio Aguero was watching this semi from his man cave, watching wave after wave of attacks by his old teammates and describing Madrid’s defence as “a sieve”. “Water is getting everywhere,” he told his Twitch followers.
He was not the only one watching on who had a knack for metaphor. Our esteemed colleagues from Radio Marca, sitting on the back row of the Etihad’s press box, watched that first half hour of devastating City sallies and discombobulated Madrid defending with a combination of terror and grief. “Una defensa de mantequilla,” they lamented. A defence made of butter. Madrid, however, very rarely melt all the way down.
