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How Desire Doue, hardwired for havoc, can rival Lamine Yamal in succeeding Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo - and the club who will have felt burnt watching him last night, writes CRAIG HOPE

How Desire Doue, hardwired for havoc, can rival Lamine Yamal in succeeding Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo - and the club who will have felt burnt watching him last night, writes CRAIG HOPE

CRAIG HOPE AT THE ALLIANZ ARENA, MUNICH: Desire Doue will not forget this night, and nor will we of the way he played, like the kid conducting the orchestra.

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