Both of these sides were looking to extend bright starts to the season but it was Guardiola’s team who looked the most confident in the early stages, particularly when Dembele hit a long-ranger through a baffled and flapping Rui P. But the mercurial Nilwall refused to be cowed and, after a botched clearance from a corner, Isco curled a sumptuous cross onto the head of Kane to equalise. Farcelona remained the classier side in posession and showed their teeth when Suarez stole half a yard from his marker and buried one low from Dembele’s pass. Not even Pekerman’s trademark #YOLO formation could summon a viable chance to equalise from there.

By Alf from the television series Alf