After City went down 3-0 to Liverpool in last week’s first leg, Guardiola recalled how Lahoz had almost cost his team against Monaco in the first leg of their last 16 tie.
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What makes Tuesday’s game particularly fascinating is that City boast an attack more than capable of ripping apart Liverpool’s defence – as they showed with their 5-0 Premier League win over Klopp’s men in September.
“We scored five against Man City and only conceded one”. These numbers are usually not possible. Because of that, the second half is too long – 50 minutes or longer. “They pressured us throughout the first half and wasted some chances to score”, Salah, who also netted in the impressive 3-0 first-leg win, told beIN Sports after the match. “We were already through the whirlwind”. At Anfield the first goal from (Mohamed) Salah is offside.
“I can not tell the boys: ‘Boys!”
“Not to disrespect Roma”.
Liverpool weathered the early onslaught from City in the second half and started growing into the game and started threatening their hosts. I liked how we reacted immediately after conceding, but then we didn’t play enough football in the right way.
Joe Gomez will not play due to ankle injury. City have now lost three in a row and will go to Wembley to face Tottenham on Saturday with the possibility that it could be four. You won’t find a team who can keep the same momentum, the same rhythm, the same pace with this amount of games.
“Over the course of eleven months you have ups and downs”, Guardiola said after Tuesday’s loss to Liverpool.
Mateu Lahoz wrongly ruled the goal out for offside, sparking City and, in particular, Guardiola’s anger.
Guardiola ran onto the field at half-time to pull his protesting players away from the official before embarking on his own rant at Mateu Lahoz that saw him watch the second half from the stands.
“I remember what happened a year ago”, said Guardiola. I just said it was a penalty and it was a goal.
A weak Karius punch created panic in the area and the ball rebounded to Sane off James Milner. Two-nil against that team is a little bit different.
After the game, he said: “The competition is so important, it needs correct decisions”.
Virgil van Dijk believes the best way for Liverpool to defend their Champions League advantage against Manchester City is by attacking them again.
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“We defended well, it’s not our best game but we deserved it at the end”. “That’s the key, it’s what you have to do against these sorts of teams”.
