It was a moment that will haunt Raheem Sterling, one in which he had the opportunity to save Manchester City’s Champions League skin only to conjure up a miss that beggared belief and had Pep Guardiola slumping to his knees on the sideline.
Perhaps it was too easy to score and Sterling, who had got into dangerous areas for a City team that only came to the boil after Guardiola changed his tactics on 55 minutes, made the mistake of presuming that being on the spot from point-blank range, the open goal yawning following Gabriel Jesus’s low cross, was enough.