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Maybe not prophetic – not at this stage, anyway – but Bernardo Silva did fire a warning earlier in the week. A warning of what lay around the corner. A warning that a potential Treble could quickly disintegrate into nothing.

Pep Guardiola has been telling his players recently to just focus on extending the season by one more week. Each week, one more week. 

After the thrilling 3-3 draw in the Bernabeu, and then a couple of results wildly swinging the Premier League title race in Manchester City’s favour, talking about the possibility of winning it all again was certainly justified.

Silva preferred to urge caution. While admitting that the idea of recreating history acted as a motivational tool, he talked about the prospect of ‘losing all three competitions’ in the space of a few days. 

It can happen, even to this team, and the crushing Champions League shootout defeat by a Real Madrid they had pummelled would ordinarily take some time to recover from emotionally.