Taking that benefit to the extreme, you could say Ilkay Gundogan ran into the stiff arm of an immovable force.
Either way, Gundogan - after half an hour of goalless Manchester City dominance came out of the collision significantly worse and his team-mates were far from happy.
Perhaps those team-mates had flashbacks to the collision between Rudiger, then at Chelsea, and Kevin De Bruyne in the 2021 Champions League final, which left the Belgian with a broken nose and fractured eye socket.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة May 10, 2023 من Daily Mirror UK.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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