City played like princes, made Liverpool gasp for air, and handed out a thrillingly fluent, thrillingly pointless 4-0 thrashing
The French have a phrase for things such as this. L’esprit de l’escalier describes that moment on the stairs when you think of exactly the right witty riposte, just 10 minutes too late.
There was something of that spirit here on an engrossing mid-summer night at the Etihad Stadium. Manchester City played like princes, made Liverpool gasp for air, and handed out a thrillingly fluent, thrillingly pointless 4-0 thrashing to the club football champions of the world.
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