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As Pep Guardiola pondered how to break down a deep Napoli defence at half-time of this Champions League tie, two players would have been on his mind.

Erling Haaland might have the firepower to open the game, but first, City needed to get the ball to him in dangerous areas. That would involve disrupting a supremely organised Antonio Conte defence.

To achieve that, you need a player capable of something different, of finding a way to unpick the lock when it looks like it's been clamped shut for the night. Enter Phil Foden and Jeremy Doku.

They are probably the two players capable of transforming this City side from a group that looks like it is tentatively entering a new era to one that can challenge for titles domestically and in Europe.

Foden needed a bright start to this

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