Manchester City – Borussia Dortmund: Phil Foden Fireworks on Bonfire Night (4-1)

The blue moon has lit up the sky as a signal of excellence for Manchester City in the past, but on Bonfire Night, the fireworks were echoed on the field by the brilliance of a local lad who is getting back to his best form. The City cogs are turning, and belief is building in the camp.

Tactical analysis and match report by Emmanuel Adeyemi-Abere.

Manchester City continue to try to regain their rhythm. Rodri remains on the road to recovery as the anchor at the base of the midfield, but the beating heart of the team, Erling Haaland, has never been so strong. Against Villarreal, he took his Champions League tally to four for the campaign, and he is far and away the highest goal scorer in the Premier League. Even though there have been frailties in the face of physicality and questions about midfield stability, the talismanic figure is flying the flag high.

Borussia Dortmund are in the much more familiar predicament of being good enough to beat most of the Bundesliga without having a competitive advantage over perennial champions Bayern Munich . . .