At 20 years of age, we were stumbling down steps in a lecture hall.
That’s what makes Sandro’s composed assist on Wednesday night so very impressive.
Through on goal, most 20-year-olds would have either taken a snap shot in the hope of just getting it on target or tried to snazzily take it around the onrushing goalkeeper.
Not Sandro who, to be fair, had already scored a hat-trick on a rare start for Barcelona when he decided to offer up his chance to a teammate in stunning circumstances.
The young Spaniard didn’t even have to look over his shoulder as he felt Munir El Haddadi making a run into the box, backheeled the ball into his path and left an open goal for him…
If it brought with it a sense of déjà vu, Guti did something very similar for Real Madrid to set up Karim Benzema against Deportivo La Coruna back in 2010…