The Manchester City coach has acknowledged his opponent’s superiority in the Champions League quarter-finals.
Shot at a press conference, Pep Guardiola, Manchester City coach, admitted that his team had missed the event this Saturday night against OL (1-3) in the quarter-finals of the League of champions. “The second period was good, but not enough, against a solid and aggressive team, like all French teams. We don’t make it through the quarter-finals, but we’ll try to do it again in the future. Statistics show that we were better than others in many areas, but it was not enough. “
“With Aouar, Caqueret and Guimaraes, they have three exceptional players in the middle”
The Spanish coach also returned to his tactical choices which may have been confusing in the first period. “In this competition, tactics are not the most important. In the last 15-20 minutes of the first period, we were there. We created chances, but we made mistakes, and in this competition … We had already made some against Tottenham (in 2019). The players worked with this system for three days. I hope we will move forward one day, “continued the former Barça coach who congratulated the opponent:” Lyon defends as well, aggressively. It’s a counter-attacking team, with a lot of commitment and aggression, it’s an extraordinary team, congratulations to them. With Aouar, Caqueret and Guimaraes, they have three exceptional players in the middle. Lyon will continue to have players of this caliber. ”
De Bruyne also noticed Aouar
Kevin de Bruyne praised Aouar’s performance on the Lyon side.
Kevin de Bruyne, one of the stars of the Citizens at least shared the opinion of his trainer on Houssem Aouar that he insisted on detaching in the opposing eleven. “It’s a team that plays well and I don’t watch French football a lot in England but for me Aouar had a good match,” said the Belgian international who praised the realism of Lyon, unlike his team: “In the first half, we did not play as we know how to do, we did not know how to create chances and they deserved to lead 1-0. In the second half, we played well with chances but the difference is that we don’t score. They have two chances and they score. ”
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