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#3 Maxwel Cornet, The Scourge Of Manchester City Yet Again
If Cornet were to choose a team that he could play every week, it would surely be Manchester City, because he can’t stop scoring against them! The Ivorian scored against the Cityzens at the Etihad in the group stage of last season’s Champions League, following that up with a brace when City visited France.
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Such is Cornet’s preference for playing against City that he has failed to net again since those group stage encounters until tonight when he came up against his favourite opponents yet again. He opened the scoring with an excellent finish under pressure, bending the ball around Ederson from an acute angle and was excellent in his work rate up and down Lyon’s left flank, making some telling defensive contributions as well.
#4 One-Legged Knockout Stages Producing Some Memorable Results
Although tonight’s result might not have been as resounding as Bayern Munich's 8-2 humbling of Barcelona last night, Lyon dumping Manchester City out of the Champions League will still send shockwaves reverberating around the footballing community. With RB Leipzig also overcoming Atletico Madrid late on to book their place in the semi-final stage, one-legged knockout games in the latter stages of the Champions League has thrown up some truly enthralling ties.
Were the two-legged system still in place, one could reasonably argue that three of the four quarter-final results this season could still have been overturned in the second leg.
Looking back, should the one-legged system have been implemented last season, we would never have seen Liverpool’s memorable comeback at Anfield against Barcelona. As such, playing out the remainder of this season’s Champions League in the style of a major summer tournament has made for an absolutely riveting watch thus far.
#5 An Advantage For Teams Whose Seasons Finished Earlier?
With Lyon’s famous win over Manchester City in the final quarter-final, the semi-final line-up of the 2019-20 Champions League makes for unexpected reading. Both semi-final ties will be Franco-German affairs, with Lyon taking on German champions Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig facing Ligue 1 winners PSG.
With Ligue 1 having been called off a few months ago and the Bundesliga wrapping up over a month before the Champions League resumed, there were some doubts over the form in which French and German teams would come back.
As it turns out, the teams that have enjoyed a longer layoff and prepared for the knockout tournament in Portugal with a couple of friendlies have fared much better than their counterparts who signed off on their respective leagues barely a week prior to the start of the Champions League.
