The measured point here is that City found a way to change the game late, which good sides often do, and Cherki clearly added something different in the final stretch. But then you end up thinking about how often this happens in football where one sub looks like a genius move and suddenly everyone is rewriting the whole match narrative, and that is where the fun and the madness of it kicks in because people will now spend the next week arguing about starting lineups, bench roles, whether a manager is stubborn or visionary, and somehow a defender scoring like a forward becomes part of that same debate, which is very football and completely absurd
