Also poised to depart Big Cup at the stage formerly known as the Round of Arsenal, but now known as the Round of PSG, are PSG. Their latest loss in the competition they are never going to win came at Borussia Dortmund, though to be fair it wasn’t quite like the egregious capitulations of yore. They were simply undone by Dortmund’s answer to Odion Ighalo, Erling Braut Haaland, who shinned one in from close range before ripping the goalframe from its moorings with another effort. Those goals made it 10 in seven Big Cup matches for the 19-year-old sensation, who will be giving sleepless nights to coaches from Paris to Madrid to Munich to Naples to Barcelona to Manchester to Milan. But mainly Manchester. … [Read more...] about Dark arts, sharp counter-attacking and weapons-grade jaded cynicism
