Ghana: Valverde’s hat-trick sinks Man City

MANCHESTER City face a mammoth task to keep their Champions League ambitions alive after Federico Valverde’s brilliant first half hat-trick put Real Madrid in control of this last-16 meeting.

Valverde tormented City with a display of the highest class, Pep Guardiola’s side offering threat up front but too often vulnerable at the back.

Real were without injured pair Kylian Mbappe and Jude Bellingham, as well as long-term absentee Rodrygo, but still had enough repower to punish City’s…