To the question of who would wish to be paired with Manchester City in next Friday’s draw for the quarter-finals the answer is surely no one.
This has been an easy canter through the group stage and last 16 to the business end of the Champions League for Pep Guardiola’s side. City reached last year’s final and few would wager they cannot do so again as there is a poise and knowhow in his team that was missing when Lyon, Tottenham, Liverpool and Monaco all dumped them out in the knockout rounds of previous editions.
