Guardiola is exposed to a new European shock
De Bruyne: We didn't play the way we wanted to against Lyon ... we're disappointed
De Bruyne scored Manchester City's only goal in the Lyon match. Father
One year ago, English football imposed its dominance in the Champions League with a pure English final for the tournament, which Liverpool had settled in its favor by beating Tottenham.
And now, it has become the golden square for the same tournament this season, without any representative of English football after Manchester City were eliminated by Lyon in the quarter-finals.
Manchester City failed again to win its first title in the Champions League, after losing, the day before yesterday, to Lyon 1-3 in the quarter-finals, and his coach Guardiola failed in a new attempt to regain the title that he had not won since his departure from Barcelona.
Guardiola led Barcelona to win the title in 2009 and 2011, but then failed to achieve the same success with Bayern Munich and Manchester City.
"There is a lot of disappointment, we wanted to win the championship," said Belgian international, Manchester City playmaker Kevin De Bruyne, who scored the 1-1 draw for the team before losing to Lyon.
He explained, "We did not play the way we wanted, the coach had a plan, but we did not find the options and the space to implement it. We changed our performance in the second half and played better. We should have scored the second goal, but we gave the opponent two goals."
He added, "If you play for a club like Manchester City, we have to win everything. We haven't won enough, and we haven't played well. We have to do better next season."
"We should have scored a second goal, but we gave them two goals," De Bruyne said.
The only title for Manchester City during this 2019-2020 season - which was spoiled by the outbreak of the emerging coronavirus - was the English Professional League Cup.
The team ranked second in the Premier League during the last domestic season, 18 points behind Liverpool, and was also knocked out of the FA Cup golden box.
Manchester City, who missed the efforts of its dangerous striker, Argentine Sergio Agüero, failed to control the course of the game in midfield, which helped Lyon to regain the lead 2-1 with a goal from Moussa Dembele.
Raheem Stirling missed the opportunity to score a 2-2 tie for Manchester City, then Dembley took advantage of a mistake by goalkeeper Ederson, and scored a reassuring goal for Lyon, who ended the match in their favor 3-1.
Manchester City will get a short rest before the start of the new Premier League season, in mid-September.
And the planning changes of Manchester City's coach, Giuseppe Guardiola, failed, as he pushed three players into the defense, which did not bear fruit in the face of French Lyon.
Although the plan was changed in the second half of the match, to become the way of playing 4/3/3, individual mistakes caused the match to end in the defeat of the English team.
Liverpool, Tottenham and Chelsea bid farewell to the tournament from the round of 16, so Manchester City remains the only representative of English football in the quarter-finals of the tournament, noting that the final rounds of the tournament, starting from the quarter-finals, are currently being held in a combined tournament system in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon.
Manchester City had knocked out Real Madrid, the record holder for the title with 13 titles, from the last 16, but fell to Lyon in the quarter-finals.
Guardiola blames the players
The Manchester City coach, Guardiola, defended his tactical methods in the match of his team, which they lost 1-3 against Lyon, the day before yesterday, in the Champions League quarter-finals, and blamed the mistakes of the players in the match against Lyon, who met Manchester City in the group stage of the tournament, last season, losing the first leg and a tie, and Lyon ousted Juventus and the star of his famous Portuguese attack, Cristiano Ronaldo, from the round of 16 for the championship this season.
Guardiola said: "We may one day break this record. We will try again in the future. We may one day succeed in improving this record."
And Guardiola said: "We created many chances, but we made a mistake or two."
"The players should now have a vacation, and then we will return. Next season will be very important," he said.
Manchester City has not managed to pass the European Champions League quarter-finals under Guardiola's leadership so far.
Guardiola led Barcelona to twice winning the European title, but failed with Bayern and City.
Manchester City will get a short rest before the start of the English Premier League next September.