Your City side to face Villa 🩵

XI | Donnarumma, Nunes, Stones, Dias, Gvardiol, Reijnders, Bernardo (C), Bobb, Foden, Savinho, Haaland

SUBS | Trafford, Aké, Marmoush, Kovacic, Cherki, Doku, Nico, O'Reilly, Lewis

KICK OFF!!

Goal. Aston Villa 1-0 Man City, Matty Cash. [19’]

Trailing at the break ⏸️

Second half underway !!

[89'] Erling Haaland scores for #ManCity, ruled out for offside. 1-0.

Defeat on the road.

🟣 1-0 🩶

Bernardo Silva: “I'd say we played quite well with the ball. Our offensive concepts are really good, we felt comfortable in the way we had the ball. Even though we didn't score, we had chances. I had the feeling we managed to put them defending deep, they struggled in some moments.

Then on the other side of the game, we were really bad defensively, our pressing was really bad. It felt like we arrived late, about two seconds, in every duel. When you go late to each duel against quality players like Aston Villa, it's always going to be tough because they're good, can go both sides, can counter, and that was the feeling.

Even though our offensive concepts were quite good, that was what I thought, if the pressing was not good you allow the game to become transitional, allow the other team to run, it makes you run every time 50 or 60 metres, and when our pressing is not good, our team doesn't play well. And I thought we were really bad in the defensive part.”

Bernardo Silva: “Obviously they [Aston Villa] are good, a very good team, a UCL team, a team with a lot of quality, but we have to look at ourselves and I have an idea - I'd have to watch the game again - that, and I'm not going to go into details, our defensive concepts were really bad today.”

Pep Guardiola: “We created, made a more than good game, started impressive, and after we lost when they contact with people in the middle. Up front we lost situations, to regain or not regain that ball made a little difference against a really good team.

Second-half we adjusted a little, we could control more in the middle, they blocked crosses, we made a lot of chances, being there, and unfortunately we could not score.”

Pep Guardiola on what he has learned from Aston Villa 1-0 Man City: “That we are a really good team, we played a really good game.

We missed at the end actions when we attacked the by-line, the last pass, last shot, last cross to be more present. But we started really good in the first 15, 20 minutes and after we were not able when they contact in the last line, to win duels, win the three-against-ones, four-against-two they were better in that position, we should be more better in attacking the ball.

And after on set-pieces, they created dangerous because they are so good. But in general, we behaved really well; second-half much better, but at the end we could not score.”

Pep Guardiola on whether it was just Man City's finished that cost them in front of goal: “Yeah, yeah... Put the ball in the net.”

We journey to the Welsh coast 🔜🌊

✨ Donnarumma & @Erling_Haaland have been named on the shortlist for the 2025 FIFPRO Men’s World XI 🩵