Ruthless Real prove masters of dark arts

IF you want to give Antonio Rudiger the benefit of the doubt, call it a clumsy challenge.

- ANDY DUNN

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.