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Manchester City Still Standing After Taking Atlético’s Best Shots

City, a team shaped by style, showed it was also skilled in the dark arts as it eliminated Atlético Madrid and moved a step closer to its first Champions League title.

A late-game fracas on the sideline was a flashpoint, but not the final word, in Wednesday’s 0-0 draw.Credit...Oscar Del Pozo/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

MADRID — Many things happened in the final 10 or 15 or 20 minutes at the Wanda Metropolitano, the ones that seemed to stretch on and on, long past the final whistle, until they almost constituted another self-contained bonus game, a separate third installment of a scheduled two-part drama.