21 minutes of madness only described the opening 21 minutes on Wednesday evening as Tottenham Hotspur travelled to the Etihad Stadium to face Manchester City in the Champions League quarter-final second leg.
Son Heung-Min gave us the narrow advantage on home soil but by minute 22 Raheem Sterling had a brace, Bernardo Silva was on the scoresheet, and Sonny had a brace. Roll on to minute 90, we’d lost Moussa Sissoko to injury, Sergio Aguero had scored, Fernando Llorente had scored, the video assistant referee had ruled out Sterling’s hattrick and in the process we lost 4-3, yet booked our place against Ajax in the semi-finals.
The player ratings from statistics website Whoscored were obviously mixed after an attacking performance like that, as naturally the defensive side takes a hit, but Sonny did it again in their system to take Man of the Match with an individual score of 8.81.
Completing the top five on the day were Fernando Llorente (7.68), Christian Eriksen (7.18), Lucas Moura (6.96) and Kieran Trippier (6.86).
Can’t cope with many of those in a season.