Football, as Johan Cruyff once said, is a game you play with your brain. You can try to play without it – but as Hugo Ekitike found out on Wednesday morning (AEST), that will only get you so far. Ekitike, 23, has it all: size, speed, strength, vision and technique. Eight minutes after coming on, the lanky Frenchman was yellow-carded for dissent after throwing the ball away in frustration at a decision by the referee. That left him walking a disciplinary tightrope for the remainder of the match.