Valverde, Real’s ever versatile Little Bird, goes on a flight of pure fantasy | Sid Lowe

Hat-trick hero played as an auxiliary right-back before excelling everywhere in midfield in one of the great European displaysFede Valverde made his way down the tunnel at the Santiago Bernabéu wearing the captain’s armband and the No 8 shirt Toni Kroos had wanted him to have. He...