Tactics not the most important thing in Champions League: Guardiola

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Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola stood by his decision to shake up his side’s tactics in their Champions League quarter-final against Olympique Lyonnais after his team suffered a shock 3-1 defeat by the unfancied French outfit. Guardiola strayed from the 4-3-3...

“I don’t know why it didn’t work but I know why we played this way,” added the Catalan.

City fell behind to Cornet’s strike in a sloppy first half and, although they looked like their usual selves after the break and levelled through Kevin de Bruyne, they were downed by two strikes from Moussa Dembele, sandwiched between an unbelievable open-goal miss from Raheem Sterling. “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.”

 

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