Sport 360- Pep Guardiola, coach of the for Manchester City On his disappointment with the defeat his team suffered once morest Real Madrid, in the second leg of the semi-finals Champions League.
and achieved Manchester City He won the first leg by four goals to three, then he advanced with a clean goal in the second half of the return match, but real madrid He managed to score two crucial goals through Rodrigo following the 90th minute. Then he scored another goal through Karim Benzema from the penalty mark in the first extra period, giving him the pass to the final in a very exciting scenario.
Pep Guardiola believes that his team played a good match until it received the two exciting goals in the last breath, noting that the players cannot be held responsible because they did their duty and were close to embracing the final.
Guardiola: We controlled Real Madrid
“For most of the game, the team was in control,” the Spanish coach told the media following the match. We played well, we had a dangerous chance with Jack (Grelic).”
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And when he was asked if this was the worst defeat he had suffered in the Champions League, he replied: “I have had other tough defeats in the Champions League, such as the defeat by Chelsea with Barcelona. We were very close to the final, in the first half it was relatively difficult, but in the second half the performance was better, but we did not manage to resolve things in the end.”
Guardiola ended his speech, “We have to raise the morale of our players, these things happen in the world of sports, this feeling that they are close to qualifying, then they score two goals once morest us and it is over.”
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