Lyon give a new surprise and eliminate Guardiola's City

Guardiola, like Barcelona, ​​sails calmly in the placid seas of the national leagues. When the stormy waters of the Champions League arrive, the Catalan's nightmare begins. New monumental failure in Europe, without palliatives despite the fact that City were better in the match, since he was assumed to be faced with a lesser rival, and once again Pep's figure is blurred since his departure from Barcelona. Olympique de Lyon played their game, with pressure and quick counterattacks, and the play could not go better, caused above all by a resounding failure of Sterling with 2-1 on the scoreboard. It touches reflection, because the citizens, who surely have the best squad in Europe, cannot settle for being shipwrecked out of England year after year.

The first half hour, moreover, emitted all the worrying signals that a Guardiola team can launch. The tiresome rhythm, the sterile possession and the lack of depth, gave wings to an Olympique de Lyon that, knowing that he was far below in the bets and in the individual quality scale, it was only worth surpassing the citizens in effort and intensity. That translated into a ball to the back of the defense for Toko Ekambi which, despite being dried well by Eric Garcia, the ball was left to Cornet to open the scoring. The Ivorian, moreover, is with four goals and together with Messi the player who has scored the most goals for City since Pep arrived in the Champions League.

Until that moment, and despite a hesitant Anthony Lopes, who drew the balls with more skill than styling, the English had not even managed to shoot between the three sticks, but just before the break, signs that they were capable of shake off that intense pressure posed by the French.

Something that was consolidated in the resumption, when it seemed that if City got a goal against Lyon it would cost them a world to beat Ederson again. Manchester City got the tie thanks to its three wise men, starting with Mahrez, who put a wonderful ball into space, followed by Sterling, who did a delicious control, and finished by De Bruyne, who beat Lopes with a dry shot.

But the French hit again with another ball behind their back, this time from Moussa Dembélé, taking advantage of the fact that the citizens had thrown the defensive line in the midfield. The goal despaired Guardiola and his team and Sterling, who had a ball to practically push over the line, sent it to the clouds remembering his worst times.

The nightmare became even greater when Dembélé scored the third practically immediately afterwards, consummating an elimination against all odds and that leaves Guardiola's project in England very touched.