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Kevin De Bruyne must feel like nothing has changed at the Etihad.

He last played here in May, when he was substituted as a sacrifice following a red card for the team . Roll on four months and, wearing a deeper shade of blue, he was taken off as the team looked to reorganise following a red.

Except this time he was taken off before half-time and, to the relief of Hugo Viana and everyone else in the most important seats in the stadium, hadn't been able to influence the game. Napoli had lost their right-back with the game still goalless when Antonio Conte moved to shore his defence up.

That Giovanni Di Lorenzo was shown his marching orders was down in no small part to Erling Haaland , first for forcing the foul as the last man on the edge of the box but then also for pro

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