PSG AND MANCHESTER CITY POST MATCH REACTIONS

After the resilience came the brilliance as Manchester City, on their greatest night in the Champions League, mounted a thrilling comeback against Paris Saint-Germain and took a significant step towards their first final. Throughout PSG’s team there were weak points to exploit, which Man City managed to do. Once they dominated possession, there was nothing Neymar and Kylian Mbappe could do at the other end 

Attack and Defense is the same thing. You defend well, you attack better. When you attack better, you are more aggressive without the ball. You cannot split them, you cannot talk about those two things not in the same time."- Guardiola after PSG Insight into view of phases. City were more compact in the centre when attacking to be able to counterpress better in transitions. I always found studying how the phases interact more exciting and informative than looking at them separately.

Kevin De Bruyne was full of praise for Pep Guardiola for changes made in Manchester City's 2-1 win in the #UCL over PSG while Mauricio Pochettino is at a loss to explain 'disappointing' and 'really painful' mistakes from PSG in Man City defeat. It was a similar kind of first leg performance we often see from Pep's Man City. Controlled, reserved, dominant in possession but not keen to overcommit. A bit timid. What seems to make this "great" were the two quite fortunate goals.

Man City were good, especially in the second half, they played a smart controlled game and got a really good result courtesy of those goals, but to talk of that being one of the great champions league performances is so overblown. Although, to silence Mbappe and Neymar for an entire second half is pretty impressive. City dominated the entire second half away from home in a semi-final tie and It was hardly a walk in the park either.