Three minutes after the second half of this FA Cup semi-final, Luis Diaz took the ball just inside his half, looked up and in the freeze frame Fernandinho's figure hung one inch above the Wembley turf, at an angle of 60 degrees. Was walking on. Towards the ground, the left leg was extended to meet the ball - and in the process of sending Diaz to the semi-summersault arc, Fernandina's frame pushed itself forward from where it had previously stood, Diaz.
It wasn't a foul, although the next one on the Sadio Man was to slip into the ankle, which could have really sent Fernandina away. The tackle on Diaz was like a message, considered a personal memo by the entire Manchester City dressing room. Because City will hate the first half of this game.
They knocked it down 3-0, playing like a team with small sacks of gravel tied to their ankles: hangover, grunting, shaking their heads, Atlético liqueurs after three days old meal. Removing the flavor.
Basically, they would hate what Diaz did to them, the highlights of his game from such hard edges. Diaz was not the man of the match (probably Man or Thiago) in this 3-2 victory. He did not score a goal nor did he create directly. But for 45 minutes, he did something for City that nobody has done for a long time, perhaps not after losing 3-0 in the Champions League in 2018, when Mohammad Salah was in a full-blown losing mood.
Diaz took Mickey. He laughed. He made dangerous small turns and flexes. Most of all, he looked like a man enjoying himself, an insult to the city's sense of self. There is a team that prides itself on suffocating its opponents, creating tension to tighten the temples for 90 minutes. Fun? You don't enjoy it here. Except for what Diaz did and it felt important because Liverpool were hovering in the rare air at the end of the season.
There were so many other moments left. Thiago's semi-impossible lift with the outside of his big toe to eliminate Mane for the third goal; The kind of pass that stops the day, to turn the ball into a helium balloon, a candy floss bag.
For the second goal, poor old Zack Stephen made a mistake. And in between were those little glimpses of light, of something that felt like fun, the power in the reserve, the kind of traits that might have brought Liverpool closer to something.
They always had a strong start. City not only injured but also killed Wanda Metropolitan because of the constant poisoning of the occasion. These are the days that bite you. At this point, enter Diaz in full scamp mode.
He is an interesting footballer, a modern day workaholic athlete, has all the shuttle cover and counter pressing. But he also has enough mischief, playfulness in his thin limbs. He was involved in the first goal as Liverpool's left hand forced a corner which was pushed back by Ibrahim Connati.
He was also in the third, watching the ball turn to the left and run towards Thiago. In the meanwhile he packed. He took the ball into the center of the circle and cut it away from the three players, then passed the showtime pass a little insulting for advice.
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