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Lisbon leaves another illustrious victim: Pep Guardiola. The surprises do not stop in this Champions League, cruel with Simeone, with Barça and now with another of the coaches who made Spanish football hegemonic before starting their adventure in other leagues. Once again, the competition he won as a player and as a coach, both for Barça, is elusive, despite having one of the largest arsenals and budget. The mighty City fell to another of the outsiders in this final eight, Olympique de Lyon, to leave two Franco-German duels in the semifinals.

The elimination is a setback for the coach, who knew how to rectify to balance the game, but fell because of the weak defense against his opponent, due to his Achilles heel.

Sterling started as the only threat from a City reduced offensively by Rudi Garcia's device at the start. Discomfort was the norm in a game that, after a few minutes, was already being played the way Olympique wanted, aligned from a five-man line that made it difficult for City to do what City wants most, which is the inside game. . The English needed to find ways outside.

Sterling created an opportunity, just starting out, which Gabriel Jesús did not reach by centimeters, those of Marçal's boot in the rebound. The first half ended in the same way, on the opposite side, the left, but this time it was Rodri who shot weakly, too much for the goal. If the first did not help Guardiola's team to get ahead on the scoreboard, the second, in full charge of the English, did not allow him to draw either, surprised at the halfway point of the first period by one against Olympique.

Running backwards is a torment for offensive teams, which shrink space and advance defense. This is what Eric García , the 19-year-old Spanish central defender, had to do , to whom Guardiola gave the axis of defense along with Laporte. With the number 50, he showed personality at the start with the ball and speed on the court. When Olympique launched Ekambi , in the correct position, the young defender corrected on the run to get the ball cleanly when the forward faced Ederson. The rejection, however, fell at the feet of Cornet, who fired a shot in a parable and placed that turned the game upside down.

Dembelé killed the contra

Until then, City had barely threatened Lopes, and would hardly do so in the next few minutes with direct shots from De Bruyne. City needed to change things, because they could not generate chances but neither prevail in the center of the field against a rival with good pressure and excellent position, and with very dynamic and technical players in the area, such as Auoar or Bruno.

Guardiola ruminated about changes, but waited for the rest to pass, with the dynamics of the game already on his part. He retired one of the three centrals, Fernandinho, and put Mahrez on the field. The change was key, as he offered a deep ball to Sterling, the winger spun over the line and delivered De Bruyne, who ran to goal.

When the game was tilting, it was Rudi García who moved the bench. One of his pieces was Dembelé, the finally decisive footballer. So confident was City that he left all the spaces behind him and Dembelé hunted one against. The VAR saw the action, very controversial, correct. City did not stop, with an impossible error from Sterling, on the line, before Dembelé, again, fired, with a blush, Guardiola from Lisbon.

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