For the next few minutes Napoli barely got out of their own half.
They had dropped into a tight block, but ten men can only cover so much grass, and the gaps Di Lorenzo's red card had opened kept reappearing. City moved the ball side to side, dragging Napoli one way and then the other, and every forward pass brought a murmur from the crowd. Everyone in the ground could feel the fourth goal coming.
Guardiola watched from the edge of his area with his arms folded, stepping forward now and then to shout something. Just after the hour he turned and leaned down to Pep Lijnders.
"Call them back," he said, nodding at Rayan Cherki and Tijjani Reijnders, whose warm-up had been getting sharper and sharper. "No rush."
Lijnders waved them in, and the two of them jogged back towards the bench.
