In comparison to Monaco v Manchester City, Atlético Madrid’s return leg against Bayer Leverkusen was a relative dead rubber.
Atléti had won their away fixture 4-2 and knew they ought to have an easy time of it against their German opponents, but they still needed goalkeeper Jan Oblak to be on top form.
The game in the Spanish capital ended goalless, but only thanks to this scarcely believable triple stop from the Slovenian international.
Both Julian Brandt and Kevin Volland (twice) could have expected to score, but the pair came up against a keeper at the very top of his game.
This is quite ridiculous from Oblak pic.twitter.com/wTrumGoeFz
— Nestor Watach (@NestorWatach) March 15, 2017
Sure, you were still probably right to watch the other game, but you missed out on probably the best couple of seconds from an individual player at this stage of the competition (well, maybe Neymar can give him some competition, but still).
Whoever ends up being drawn against Diego Simeone’s men in the quarter-finals will know they are up against it, and not just because they are up against a team with six wins from their eight games in the competition so far.
