Currently, the Manchester City is one of the most powerful clubs in European football and the main candidate to win a Champions League that it has yet to win in its more than 140-year history. A title to which he has come very close in recent years, last season he was at the gates after losing the final against Chelsea 1-0 with a goal from Havertz.
A few recent years that are full of bumps. Perhaps one of the most notorious came in 2020 in the quarterfinals when he fell 3-1 to olympique de lyon. After that defeat he stayed out of the Lisbon Final Four that had to be played to decide the champion due to the global pandemic due to the Coronavirus.
Well, the great protagonist of that match was a former mattress maker like Moussa Dembele. The French striker came out in place of the captain memphis depay in the 75th minute. A surprising decision by his coach rudy garcia by leaving out his star, although in the end it was decisive.
Four minutes after entering Dembele finished a counter to a pass from Aouar to put the 2-1 on the scoreboard. From that moment the Manchester City he went for the game in search of a goal that would force extra time. But instead it was 3-1 in the 87th minute after he defined a new counterattack and a new assist from Aouar. Thus Moussa became the unexpected hero of the lyons on the Championsand incidentally the unexpected villain for the ‘citizens’.
In the semifinals he would fall olympique de lyon against him Bayern Munich for a resounding 3-0. Despite the 32 minutes of Dembele. The Germans had just won 8-2 at Barcelona and they passed over the Gauls, just before beating PSG in the final.
Moussa Dembelé in his presentation with Atlético de Madrid.
A few months later he would still not be the undisputed starter in the olympique de lyonand in the winter market he arrived on loan to Atletico Madrid. Injuries and fainting prevented him from triumphing as a rojiblanco although he did his bit so that the team from Cholo Simeone finished champion. That if in the locker room he left great relationships especially with players like Lemar either carrasco. To those who may have given some advice in the last few hours on how to become the black beast of the Manchester City.
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