After Champions League: “miserably” and “destroyed”: Guardiola and City in criticism

Star coach Pep Guardiola and Manchester City are in front of a pile of broken glass after the early Champions League-off-and massive in the English media. There is now the certainty that Guardiola’s best team is officially over, the “Guardian” wrote after the 1: 3 (0: 2) defeat in the playoff secondary at Real Madrid.

The game on Wednesday evening was a “act of sporting cruelty,” it said in a snappy comment. One could see how the real professionals “tear out the wings very slowly” an aubergine butterfly. It was a “pitiful” defeat, according to “The Telegraph”.

City “swung the white flag,” wrote the “Times”. Real Superstar Kylian Mbappé “destroyed” the guests with his hat trick, judged the “Mirror”. City was broken down into pieces, the “Daily Mail” said.

Guardiola: Real this time the better team

Guardiola himself initially looked frustrated immediately after the Königsklass-Ko of the English football champions, but then quite later. The best team won and deserved to get on, said the former coach of FC Bayern Munich. In the previous years he had the feeling that his team was better than real – but not this time.

The late 2: 3 defeat in the first leg was “difficult to swallow”, said Guardiola. But even with a better result, it would have been difficult in the second leg. Real is “the scale” in this competition. His team had to learn from defeat, accept them and continue.

Last chance of title of the season in the FA Cup

Guardiola has been a coach at City since 2016. Since then he has won the championship with the club and the Champions League in 2023. This season the Skyblues only have a realistic title chance – in the FA Cup.

Guardiola did not want to answer whether the team needed a new structure or could pull himself together again. The 54-year-old said. One goal must be to qualify for the premier class again in the remaining Premier League season.