IT WAS beautiful and brutal in equal measure.
And it was also the most convincing stake yet of Manchester City's claim to be the greatest team to ever grace English football.
This eternal debate has no defining answer, because it's impossible to compare sides from different generations.
But what City's deadly demolition of Real Madrid did confirm is that Pep Guardiola's team is special indeed.
We are watching true greatness unfold before us as the English champions close in what would be only the second Treble in history - and first this century.
It takes a team of astonishing quality, endurance and desire to pull this off and what Guardiola has moulded in the blue half of Manchester has all these qualities in startling abundance. And then some.
There is a caveat to all this success, of course.
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