For all their effective, direct build-up, though, the opener was wholly accidental. Yan Diomande put Gerard Martin in a spot of bother with a low cross, but the Barcelona man canoned his clearance off the body of Mbappe. It ended up in the back of the net, not that Mbappe himself knew anything about it, but that was enough to have Mourinho’s men in front at half-time.
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