MANCHESTER.- From 3-0 in the 75th minute to a bitter 3-3: the Manchester City He let a victory that he had in his pocket slip away against Feyenoord and was left with a draw that tastes like defeat, this Tuesday on the fifth day of the single group of the Champions League.
Erling Haaland’s double (44 from a penalty, 53) and Ilkay Gündogan’s goal (50) seemed to support the ‘citizen’ victory, but the last quarter of an hour was a nightmare for the English champion, who saw how their Dutch rival He reached his level with the goals of Anis Hadj-Moussa (75), Santi Giménez (82) and David Hancko (88).
The ‘Sky Blues’ had lost five games in a row, which included a 4-1 slap at Sporting Lisbon earlier this month, so winning was vital and not doing so, added to how the tie, is especially worrying.
The self-esteem of the team, which had also fallen 4 to 0 at home against Tottenham at the weekend, remains low before visiting leader Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday.
“We are conceding a lot of goals because we are not having stability,” lamented coach Josep Guardiola. “We have lost a lot of games lately, we are showing ourselves to be fragile. Of course, we need a victory,” said the Catalan coach.
In the first half of this Tuesday, Feyenoord gave more than one scare, but a penalty converted by Haaland (44) gave the hosts an advantage before going to the locker room.
The start of the second half seemed to sentence everything. On a rebound after a corner kick, Ilkay Gündogan (50) volleyed the ball from the edge of the area and, among a cloud of rivals, got the second, while Haaland (53) scored shortly after, putting his foot in to reach a pass of the death of the Portuguese Matheus Nunes.
script twist
With the score 3-0, Guardiola, in his worst run of results since joining City in 2016, seemed to be able to breathe easy, but nothing could be further from the truth.
An error by Josko Gvardiol allowed Algerian Anis Hadj-Moussa (75) to start the comeback.
In the 82nd minute, the Argentine nationalized Mexican Santi Giménez brought Feyenoord closer, pushing the ball almost over the line, and the Slovakian David Hancko (88) sealed the 3-3 tie by completing a counterattack led by his teammate Paixao.
Jack Grealish sent the ball to the post in the final stoppage time, in what could have been the victory for City, who are still in very poor times and are accusing the wave of injuries suffered by their squad.
“The result is very important for us. We were losing 3-0 against Manchester City, which for me is the best team in the world, but we were able to react with those three goals at the end. We must be satisfied,” said the coach of the Feyenoord, Brian Priske.
