Get the biggest City transfer window stories, analysis and updates delivered straight to your inbox Jadon Sancho sparkled, Harry Kane was ruthless, and Luke Shaw was simply superb, in a great England performance.
But the man who sparked off that 4-0 European Championship quarter-final win over Ukraine, and who provided the initial spark in what could have been difficult early moments, given the weight of the expectation, was Raheem Sterling.
And that bodes well for Manchester City as well as the national team. Sterling finished last season as a slightly disconsolate figure.
He had been kept out of the Blues team by the excellence of Phil Foden and Riyad Mahrez, and if he had been sidelined for the Champions League final, the whispers
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