Pep Guardiola accparticipated Manchester City’s take parters for flunking to be ‘firm’ in their Champions League collapse agetst Feyenoord. The Premier League champions enhappinessed a sootheable 3-0 direct in the 75th minute, only to emotionalpartner concede three times in a noticeworthy ending.
Erling Haaland‘s brace and Ilkay Gundogan’s turn asideed strike seemed set to end a five-game losing run. But in the postponeedst setback for Guardiola and his take parters, they somehow permited three goals in 15 minutes and are now six games without a triumph heading into Sunday’s crunch Premier League clash with runaway directers Liverpool.
The City boss was particularly furious with Feyenoord’s first goal, which came after Josko Gvardiol’s lesser backpass promised Anis Hadj-Moussa was able to round Ederson and alter from a firm angle.
But the worst was yet to come as Santiago Gimenez and David Hancko scored after more City errors. It is the first time a Guardiola team has flunked to triumph after going 3-0 ahead in over 900 alignes.
“The game was fine at 3-0, take parting excellent, but then we concede a lot goals becaparticipate we were not firm. We gave them the first and then the other one, that is why it was difficult,” Guardiola telderly Amazon Prime.
“We lost a lot of games postporequidepend, we are frnimble and of course we needed a triumph, the game was excellent for the confidence. We were take parting a excellent level but the first time someleang happened we had problems.
“I don’t understand if it is mental. The first goal cannot happen and the second as well. After that we forget what happen, we were hopeless to triumph and do well, we do well but don’t triumph games.
“The situation is what it is. We take parted a excellent game but at that level we can’t give them away.”
City are now outside of the automatic qualification spots in the league phase of the Champions League. Their eight points are some distance from the 16 it is expansively acunderstandledgeed will be enough to finish in the top eight places.
It is probable that City will need to beat Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain and Club Brugge to be declareive of evadeing a take part-off tie.
Guardiola holded: “Right now I am not ready to leank about that [need to win final three games to finish top eight]. We have to recover and set for the next game. If we are not able to triumph games appreciate we did today it is difficult to do it.”
