Atletico Madrid 0-0 Manchester City: Football with agg > football without agg - The Warm-Up

THURSDAY'S BIG STORIES FODEN S***HOUSERY AND A SAVIC HAT-TRICK OF AGG Ad/> Manchester City drew 0-0 with Atletico Madrid at the Wanda Metropolitano on Wednesday night to progress to the Champions League semi-finals for the third time in the club's history. FootballOpinion: Liverpool-Man City rivalry lacks key ingredients, but that can quickly changeYESTERDAY AT 17:01 It was, as Will Magee notes in his match report, in a football sense, a fairly entertaining affair for a nil-nil. In terms of agg, it was a complete masterpiece.

The less-than-sophisticated part of Diego Simeone's tactical plan: kick anything that moved — and if that thing was Phil Foden all the better — meant the match crescendoed with agg until Stefan Savic and Jack Grealish went at it in the tunnel. Kicker-in-chief was Felipe. He escaped a yellow on 12 minutes when he left the England man with a bandaged head after clattering into him in mid-air.

After that he clattered other players — most notably Kevin De Bruyne for which he acquired a yellow — defended a bit, and then clattered Foden again late on. Felipe's foul on Foden in the 88th minute was undoubtedly snide, a bit malicious but, more than anything, defied logic. The home side had been applying pressure when Foden collected the ball and galloped towards the corner flag.

Felipe won the ball cleanly enough with a robust challenge but then decided to leave something on the England man with a pronounced and unnecessary follow-through. Foden took the open invitation to make the most of Felipe's challenge rolling around clasping his ankle. He showed great — and this term may very well be made up — s***house intelligence, to roll back onto the pitch to waste time and, crucially, puncture Atleti's momentum.