LISBON – Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has maintained his resolve to reorganize his team’s tactics in the Champions League quarter-finals against Olympique Lyonnais after his appearance suffered a surprise 3–1 defeat to the Frenchman’s unpaid.
Guardiola has deviated from the 4-3-3 squad with which his appearance had surpassed Real Madrid thirteen times in the last 16 games, aligned to a side, adding Erik García, 19 years old, very inexperienced, as a central defender.
“In this competition, tactics are not the ultimate,” Guardiola said at a press conference.
“They (Lyon) are so fast and our central defenders so fast, so I didn’t have to leave them two against two.
“We worked on it for 3 days, we discussed it and looked at it, and when you play like we did in the last 20 minutes, it shows that the formula is the problem.”
Garcia misinstood the purpose of Lyon’s timing, while the defense also slipped wrong for Maxwel Cornet’s first purpose, which allowed a loose purpose from outside the area.
“I don’t know why he didn’t make paintings, I still know why we play like this,” The Catalan added.
“We fought in the first 25 minutes, but in the part of the moment we felt free, we were there and I felt like we were bigger than them, but we have to be the best at this festival and we weren’t.”
The City opposed Cornet’s coup in a careless first half and, although they looked like themselves after the break and drew through Kevin de Bruyne, were knocked down through two shots of Moussa Dembele, sandwiched between an incredible stop at Raheem Sterling.
“That’s what it is and I hope that one day we’ll break this gap in this competition,” added Guardiola, who has taken City to two Premier League titles in four seasons that never went past the Champions League quarter-finals.
“We created more occasions, we had more shots, we did everything, but they took us away again.
Guardiola complained about Lyon’s moment goal, which survived a VAR checkpoint after a possible lack of Dembélé over the City Aymeric Laporte defender.
“I don’t know, I don’t need to communicate those cases because I happen to complain or look for excuses. We went out, I already had the feeling that we were amazing, but we made mistakes. in the boxes at key moments.
He also took strong action against Sterling’s astonishing defeat, which would have led the score to 2-2 and temporarily punished through Dembele’s momently purpose, which was the fatal blow.
“This moment sums up this competition, we had to match and after fitting the 3rd goal,” he said.
“It’s this competition, you have to be perfect.” (Report through Richard Martin; edited through Clare Fallon and Christian Radnedge)
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