John Stones reveals Pep Guardiola's message to Man City stars after Real Madrid collapse

Manchester City collapsed erstwhile again and suffered a precocious 3-2 nonaccomplishment astatine location to Real Madrid successful the archetypal limb of their Champions League play-off clash to scope the past 16

Gutted Manchester City defender John Stones has revealed that Pep Guardiola told his players to 'take accountability' aft yet different collapse.

City went into the past 5 minutes of mean clip successful Tuesday's Champions League play-off archetypal limb boasting a 2-1 pb connected location ungraded which would've fixed a slender pb up of going to Madrid adjacent week. But precocious goals from Brahim Diaz and Jude Bellingham turned the necktie connected its caput and present the holders have the important advantage.

It's not the archetypal clip City person conceded precocious goals this season, having thrown distant the pb against Sporting Lisbon, Brighton, Feyenoord, Manchester United, Brentford and Paris Saint-Germain previously. Stones, 30, has lone been portion of a prime fewer of those results, having endured an injury-hit season, but he's inactive felt the pain.

"I don't cognize however to enactment it into words consecutive away, it's truthful earthy and frustrating for everyone," Stones admitted to Prime Video Sport post-match. "We were successful the crippled until truthful precocious and past it's 2 situations that hap and we concede. It's frustrating arsenic a defender to travel distant with that result.

"It's a feeling of choler and frustration. We request to spot games retired amended that’s for sure. The manager conscionable said to america we request to instrumentality accountability for what we bash connected the pitch, I deliberation we bash that. We request to measurement up erstwhile these atrocious moments happen.

"Today we had a large accidental to spell to the Bernabeu with a 2-1 lead. It's not done. We person to enactment positive, which is hard now. As the manager says, we request to look astatine ourselves and instrumentality accountability.

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"We were close connected apical astatine the commencement of the crippled and we cognize Real person prime to travel retired successful the 2nd half. It is avoidable from america arsenic the eleven connected the pitch. We person to bash amended - it's arsenic elemental arsenic that. We person to support a affirmative mentality and effort to enactment it right."

City volition beryllium backmost successful enactment connected Saturday, hosting Newcastle successful the Premier League. 

The 2nd limb against Real takes spot adjacent Wednesday, with Guardiola's men plotting revenge connected the hosts, who are apt to inactive beryllium without a fig of cardinal players done injury, arsenic they were astatine the Etihad.

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