Scott Carson shows up Gianluigi Donnarumma as Man City cameo breaks Champions League record

They say legends are forged on Champions League nights, when Europe's finest go head-to-head under the lights to write new chapters in their club's histories and secure their status as legends.

Wednesday night was no different, an ageing fan-favourite putting smiles on the faces of his adoring fans. Karim Benzema scored a 17-minute hat-trick as Real Madrid overturned a 2-0 aggregate deficit to dump Paris Saint-Germain out of the Champions League.

However, I'm not talking about the French striker.

In the 73rd minute of Manchester City's goalless draw with Sporting Lisbon - an effective dead rubber after City won the first leg 5-0 - 36-year-old goalkeeper Scott Carson came off the bench to make his second appearance for the club.

In doing so he made history. It was Carson's second appearance in the Champions League, the first coming for Liverpool in April 2005. James McAtee was two years old back then. The gap between the two outings was 16 years and 338 days; no player has ever waited longer.

Meanwhile, over in Madrid, Gianluigi Donnarumma, nemesis of England and one of the highest-paid (and usually best) goalkeepers in the world, had committed a howler that allowed Benzema to start one of the unlikeliest of comebacks.

City were admittedly home and hosed by the time of Carson's introduction, but given Guardiola's ever-serious attitude and the presence of experience-hungry keeper Cieran Slicker on the bench, replacing Ederson with the veteran seemed an odd substitution to make.

That Guardiola allowed himself a good-humoured moment speaks volumes of the standing Carson has at the club; Pep clearly just wanted to do something kind for a player and man he values highly.

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