Sid Lowe

Another round which they would have had to play before anyway.

So I do think there is a slight risk of us allowing ourselves to believe that not finishing in the top eight is somehow, wow, you're out.

It's not you're out at all.

It's just a knockout round of the Champions League, which you will probably win.

So what I mean by this is I'm not saying I don't like the format.

I think I'm starting to warm to it.

I think I probably do like it.

But I think we probably shouldn't allow ourselves to believe that it's more dramatic than it really is, if you sort of mean.

And I think if you're a big club, you have to do something horrendously wrong to get knocked out.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

And he said something very interesting, I thought, after this game.

He said that he feels more free, looser in the way that he plays in the Champions League.

And I really enjoyed the way that he said it, not just what he said.

He said, you know, in the Champions League, it's normally just one-on-one, me against one man.

And there was a kind of a pause, and he sort of thought about it.

He said, well, not normally one, it's normally a couple.

But that's fewer than it is in La Liga.

You know, I feel like I've got people I can run at, people I can try and take on.

And when he's on the kind of form he's on yesterday, there are moments where you think, wow, they...

They just can't stop him.