Wheels above once Joao Neves was passing the advertising monities with an astonished aspect of someone who had not only completed the dramatic return of Paris Saint-Germain, but was located six yards of space of a routine game.
Informably alone, 78 minutes in a crucial bond of the Champions League. Manchester City was not recovering from that, not in its fragile state in the feverish princes parc des princes, and it was described that he had hostely traveled his plane to beat them directly at home.
The city usually remains during the night after the accessories of Europe Away (a steam, sauna, pool in the morning, but decided against it for Paris, largely until the short flight time. Pep Guardiola players were They will have been glad to have left the crime scene quickly and become their own beds.
The mood was predictably dark for a couple of days later, Guardiola actually surprised pleasantly for the response to beating Chelsea, and that persistent disappointment of the team was carried out from the same old problems in Europe.
While the head of the Neves slipped below the Ederson, four city players nervously looked at the man with lines offside in vacant despair. A horrible Manuel Akanji made a gesture towards Rico Lewis. Erling Haaland half hit the ball against the network. Everything shouted a gloomy acceptance. The story is not new, simply a variation.
Two goals after 53 minutes and losing for 78 in what was effectively the fourth opportunity of the city to nail the progression of the qualifying stages. Four have gone and come, the fifth y The weekend.
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The inconsistent team of the city of Pep Guardiola has suffered three extraordinary capitulations in the Champions League this season against Lisbon Sporting, Feyenoord, a Santo-Germain Paris
Opta gave them greater chances of winning each game than to end with only eight points
“We are here for the reasons we know and because we have not been good enough,” Guardiola said.
Those are painfully simple: the lack of control in the key moments, which do not use sufficiently intelligent possession, and defensive disorganization as a consequence. The leaders have been in other places, injured or of another, and has contributed to bring us here, even in a new format designed to benefit the upper table.
In previous years, the PSG could have felt like a capitulation Nadir, but that prize goes to Feyenoord, the 3-3 draw in November, when the Dutch scored three in the last 16 minutes, the defense of the city in a hacking . 'Three episodes', Guardiola labeled them as at that time, as if described a tragedy.
Guardiola locked himself in his office after that. Hours later, when the training personnel are received in the training field that seeks to offer some kind of moral impulse, a manager still disconsolate, who barely slept, turned to say bleakly, “is not a good day.”
It was then that the city was being seized by a crisis. One that has decreased but has not been completely, Guardiola insisted on Tuesday that they had not folded a corner. Feyenoord had followed another collapse in Sporting, Ruben Amorim's side hit Ederson three times in the space of 11 minutes on each side of the halftime.
Three cards of cards in Europe and in that spell, two in the Premier League: the late Derby Spoils concession against Manchester United last month and the Brentford two goals demonstration before.
When trust is fragile, emotional stability to see these results disappears and the battle of the city with the mind has been as fundamental as actions and injuries.
In particular, neither John Stones, Nathan Ake nor Ruben days have been available for any of the European shakes. All of them exudate a bit of extra calm and Guardiola hopes to call Stones on Wednesday night.
City had not learned their lesson when they faced the PSG and granted four after the break
Leaving the Champions League at this stage would see City lost at least 10 million
They have only faced two of the 16 best clubs at the Competition League table this season.
Guardiola suffered a nose cut after scratching during Feyenoord's collapse
Rodri, an octopus at the base of the center of the field, also presents innumerable fires. And as one of the most vowel members of the leadership group, led by a tired Kyle Walker until he joined the AC Milan on loan, which could have offered more tips in the game when Tides turned.
That and retain possession, putting your foot in the ball, in a way that the options in the center of the city field simply have not been achieved. They have rarely seem able to get the sting of the matches on the continent.
“I don't know what to say,” Joseko Gvardiol sighed. 'Against Paris, Two-Nil Up, you want to finish the game by scoring one more instead of taking control of the ball. To move the ball to the left and to the right.
'We wanted to continue scoring one more and can hurt you. That's when it happens, you grant one, two, three fast goals. We were a little mentally low and it is difficult to return.
Phil Foden was illuminating a similar issue when, in an interview with the local newspaper, he admitted that mental fatigue saw its own way decrease at the beginning of the season. “My mental state was low,” he said. 'Soccer is playing with the brain'.
City has lost its at regular intervals. Gvardiol echoed the synopsis of the difficulties of its manager, the reason why City is in the unfathomable position of requiring victory in its final group game to sneak into a playoff round to determine if they reach the last 16.
Anything except a victory would cost at least 10 million in prizes and the amazing scenario in which the city is amplified by the OPTA statistics at the beginning of the competition.
Its supercomputer gave the city a probability of 0.4 percent of finishing at eight points, its current total and 2.2 percent of them that ended in 11. As a comparison, the possibilities of eight consecutive victories apparently were considered higher .
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The list of accessories has not been particularly unpleasant, the city faces only two of those within the top 16 of the League: Inter and Feyenoord. It makes a gloomy reading. When asked if the elimination would serve as a shame, Guardiola replied: 'Thank you for your concern, but after the game it will worry and answer you.
'We would like to score a lot in the first 20 minutes, but I don't think it happens. We need to be completely relaxed, without emotion and understand the game. I know that these types of games need something special, something that has not been (seen) sufficiently this year in the Champions League.
Guardiola spoken gently one day of his assignment that he must win, as well as his way on the eve of the definition of the nights. In general, they are reserved for April or May, at the end of this competition, however, emotional scars, apart from the Guardiola have been visibly used, of each collapse they have fed the next.
The city manager knows all this, and he knows that the city that appeared in Chelsea should deal with witches without problems, and rightly diverted to take away some pressure.
“I appreciate your concern for whether we don't describe, but I think we are going to do it,” he said. If they do not, a team within a penalty for arriving in consecutive endings eight months ago, it will be one of the greatest disasters in modern history. Imagine mental state if that happens.