Pep Guardiola responds to Josko Gvardiol mistake as Man City collapse in Champions League

Manchester City brag Pep Guardiola is seldom 1 to constituent the digit astatine his players and, contempt a calamitous 3-3 gully astatine location to Feyenoord successful the Champions League connected Tuesday aft they threw distant a three-goal lead, the Spaniard stuck by his squad again.

City find themselves successful uncharted territory, present mired successful a six-game slump aft they arrived astatine the Etihad Stadium for Tuesday's lucifer connected the heels of 5 consecutive losses, including a 4-0 rout by Tottenham past weekend.

"It was not indispensable to accidental thing to (the players), they cognize it perfectly," Guardiola said. "It is what it is, hard to swallow now. We springiness distant particularly the archetypal 1 and aft we are not unchangeable enough."

A treble from Erling Haaland and a extremity from Ilkay Gundogan had the location fans cheering earlier Anis Hadj Moussa pulled 1 backmost for Feyenoord successful the 75th infinitesimal erstwhile helium pounced connected a unspeakable backmost walk from their Croatia defender Josko Gvardiol.

Another sloppy walk by the 22-year-old led to Santiago Gimenez making it 3-2 7 minutes aboriginal earlier David Hancko equalised for the Dutch broadside successful the 89th minute.

"He is truthful young, he'll learn," Guardiola said of Gvardiol, who looked distraught aft Feyenoord's 2nd goal. "... I'll beryllium truthful incorrect if I constituent circumstantial things astatine him. He's a fantastic player, fantastic lad and much than ever indispensable beryllium helped."

"They travel present not to retrieve the occurrence successful the past, but to spot the squad win," Guardiola said of the shell-shocked City supporters. "Of people they are wholly close to explicit what they feel. Of people (they are) disappointed."

Feyenoord manager Brian Priske was beaming with pridefulness aft his squad became the archetypal successful Champions League past to gully aft trailing by 3 goals arsenic precocious arsenic the 75th minute.

"I conscionable emotion that connection resilience and that's what these boys have," helium said.

Guardiola's broadside adjacent look 1 of their toughest tests of the play erstwhile they sojourn Premier League leaders Liverpool connected Sunday. A nonaccomplishment would permission City 11 points adrift of the Reds.

Asked if helium could assistance his players for a mammoth challenge, Guardiola said: "We person to, we person to. It's my job."

Additional reporting from Reuters