Richard Jolly: What Manchester City’s unpredictability reveals about their Champions League hopes

It is the sort of result that can mark a team out as potential champions of Europe. Beating Real Madrid in the Bernabeu, at the very least, could offer an indication that a team is equipped to defeat them in a final, semi-final or quarter-final. Although Pep Guardiola, more than most, can testify to Real’s winning habit when the stakes are highest.