Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola on Saturday said his side lost 3 - 1 to Olympique Lyonnais to exit the UEFA Champions League because they lacked the perfection needed in Europe ’ s top competition.
Manchester City fell behind to Maxwel Cornet ’ s strike in a sloppy first half of the quarter - final match .
They then looked like their usual selves after the break and levelled through Kevin de Bruyne .
However , they were downed by two strikes from Moussa Dembele , sandwiched between an unbelievable open - goal miss from Raheem Sterling .
“ It is what it is and hopefully one day we ’ ll bridge this gap , ” Guardiola said after a fourth successive failure in the UEFA Champions League with Manchester City.
“ We struggled in the first 25 minutes , but in the second half we felt free . We were there and I had the feeling we were better than them . But you have to be perfect in this competition and we were not . ”
Guardiola did not complain about Lyon’ s second goal , which survived a VAR review after a potential foul by Dembele on Manchester City defender Aymeric Laporte .
“ I don’ t know , I don’ t want to talk about those circumstances because sometimes it seems like I’ m complaining or looking for excuses .
“ We are out , I had the feeling we were incredible already , but we made mistakes in the boxes in the key moments . ”
Guardiola also rued Sterling ’ s astonishing miss which would have made it 2 - 2 and they were promptly punished by Dembele’ s second goal which was the killer blow .
“ That moment sums up this competition, we had to equalise and after we conceded the third goal . That ’ s this competition, you have to be perfect.
“ We created more chances , had more shots , we did everything , but unfortunately we are out again. ”
( Reuters /NAN)
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