It wasn't so long ago that City v. Bournemouth would have been seen as an almost certain City win after attractive football from both sides, maybe even with City overwhelming them and having the game won inside 20 minutes. Remember a game v. Bournemouth at the Etihad a few years back when De Bruyne started things off by rolling a free-kick under the feet of the players in the wall and into the net, that summed up the ease with which City did things then. Those days are gone, but in the likely absence of 90 minutes of total dominance on Sunday I reckon City can win it with a few magic moments - one of those astonishing crosses from KDB that cut out the defenders and curl away from the 'keeper for Haaland to tap in (he can still do that once or twice a game) or maybe a dazzling, dancing Doku run that actually ends in a shot on target. We'll need at least two such bits of individual magic, though, and probably three, and the same goes for the semi and the Final.
