Pep Guardiola's telling verdict as 'fragile' Man City suffer Champions League collapse

Pep Guardiola's Manchester City were 3-0 up against Feyenoord with 15 minutes to play but couldn't clasp connected for what could person been an important triumph successful the Champions League

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola admitted his squad person been incapable to shingle their fragility arsenic they threw distant a three-goal pb against Feyenoord.

City looked acceptable to enactment their caller pugnacious tally down them successful immoderate benignant arsenic they went 3-0 up wrong an hr astatine location to Feyenoord. They inactive led by that borderline with 15 minutes near connected the clock, lone for the Dutch broadside to sensationally people 3 of their ain to snatch a point.

Anis Hadj Moussa gave Feyenoord hope, with Santi Gimenez mounting up a nervy last fewer minutes. And determination was inactive clip for David Hancko to stun the location fans with a infinitesimal near connected the clock.

The gully leaves City connected 8 points from 5 games, and arsenic things stands they would request to spell done a play-off circular to scope the circular of 16. Speaking aft the game, Guardiola made his feelings clear.

"It was good astatine 3-0 and playing bully and we didn't concede much, but we concede the goals due to the fact that we are not stable," Guardiola told Amazon Prime. "We springiness them the archetypal and the different one, truthful successful that mode it's difficult.

"A batch of games lately we are fragile and of people we request a victory, and the crippled was bully for the confidence. We were playing astatine a bully level, and for the archetypal clip thing happened determination are problems."

He was asked if the fragility was mental, replying: "I don't cognize if it's mental, it's a question of technique. The archetypal extremity cannot hap and the 2nd arsenic well, truthful that's wherefore aft that... we are hopeless to win, hopeless to bash well. We did good but we don't triumph games."

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City had mislaid 5 connected the rotation earlier Feyenoord came to town, culminating successful a 4-0 nonaccomplishment astatine location to Tottenham connected Saturday. While the losing tally technically came to an end, and Guardiola saw immoderate positives, City mightiness request maximum points from their past 3 European games to debar an other European play-off round.

"There are a batch of bully things, but aft wherever we came from and aft 3-3, thing overmuch to say," Guardiola added. "Of people determination are a batch of [good] things, we played a truly bully crippled but I deliberation astatine that level we cannot springiness them away.

"Right present it's not acceptable to deliberation astir [the remaining Champions League games]. We person to retrieve for the adjacent games, conscionable deliberation astir what's going to hap successful the future, what you person to do, and we are not capable to triumph a crippled similar contiguous it's hard to bash it."

When asked however his squad would hole to look Premier League leaders Liverpool connected Sunday, his reply was brief. "Rest," helium said. "One oregon 2 days, wide mentally and deliberation of the adjacent [game]."

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