Pep Guardiola and his Manchester City stars were torn apart by the Spanish press after the team was capitulated during a 3-2 defeat by Real Madrid on Tuesday evening.
City seemed ready to arrive in the Spanish capital next week with an advance of a loot after Erling Haaland managed to convert his penalty of 80th minute after a fault on Phil Foden.
The strike, the second in the Norwegian match intervened after Kylian Mbappe restored parity for Real Madrid strongly. The hosts then conceded twice in the last six minutes at Etihad, while visitors sealed the three points.
In the wake of the astonishing victory of Madrid, the Spanish press praised the side the next morning – while also targeting the Premier League champions.
Spanish Outlet Sport had the title “stick to pep” before writing: “Haaland put his team twice twice, but City has once again let the game slide”.
Their back page has shown that the city defender Josko Gvardiol with his head in his hands while the stars of Madrid celebrate wildly in the background.
Manchester City fell on a 3-2 defeat on Tuesday against Real Madrid in the Champions League
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Subsequently, City was mocked by the Spanish press – with this title saying “Stick to Pep”
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Meanwhile, Mundo Deportivo described the side of Pep Guardiola as “fragile” after the defeat
Meanwhile, one of the columnists of the point of sale wrote that “ City has aged Guardiola badly ” and also suggested that team players are also in decline.
The chronicle can be read as follows: “A group of players who are too old, unable to follow the pace required in Europe.”
In another play written by the point of sale, it was said that Guardiola was “lost” in the middle of the bad form of the city and suggested that the team could not overthrow their struggles.
He read: “It seems that the players make the pep bed, or at least it seems that the locker room has no enough strength to run the team and continue to win as they did until here.
“Before losing against Real Madrid, he had already warned of his position on a possible outing. He deserves to leave when he wants it ”.
Elsewhere, Mundo Deportivo has chosen to focus on other questions but has always found space to affirm that City showed their fragility at night.
They wrote: “A fragile city gives the triumph. They went forward twice with Haaland but made mistakes at the back.
In a separate room written by the point of sale, similar to Sport, they targeted Guardiola in the middle of a few difficult months for Spanish.
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Points of sale in Spain claimed that Guardiola was now “lost” in Man City in the middle of their form in difficulty
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Several points of sale quickly praised the capitulation of Madrid and Mock City
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Erling Haaland scored twice at night but could not prevent City’s defeat against Madrid
They said that the city’s boss had shown “signs of discouragement and fatigue in recent months” and that the team had “fallen into the abyss, England and Europe”.
Another point of sale, as, had the title: “This is how Madrid wins!”
They added: “The side race of Ancelotti on City in its best game outside over the years, the objective of time of departure from Bellingham brings justice”.
Finally, Marca had the title: “Bravo Madrid! Mbappe, Brahim and Bellingham neutralize the two goals of Haaland ”.
In the meantime, French newspaper The team No punching by putting several stars from Manchester City, brutal notes.
The team, which was known for its ratings of hard players, highlighted several underperforming players in the Man City range.
The display of Bernardo Silva received a particularly severe criticism, the midfielder presented a 3/10 for his performance, the lowest brand of beginners.
“ The Portuguese player had a bad match, winning only 17% of his duels (1/6), recovering only three bullets and causing three faults, including the well -placed free kick which led to the equalizer of Kylian Mbappe ”, “ The team wrote.
“He could also have received a yellow card for a load on Jude Bellingham (89th), which was surprisingly not whistled.”
The boss of the city Guardiola received a 4/10 for his management of the match, goalkeeper Ederson, defender Ruben Dias and winger Savinho received the same note for their performance on the field.