A nightmare few days for Guardiola!
It has been a nightmare few days for Man City manager, Pep Guardiola.
On Saturday, Man City’s club record 32-game unbeaten run in the Premier League was ended at the Vitality stadium by their host, Bournemouth.
On Tuesday night, Man City’s record-breaking 26-game unbeaten run in the Champions League was ended by Sporting CP of Portugal.
Manchester City had broken Man United’s record for the longest ever unbeaten run in the Champions League (26 games) when they defeated Sparta Prague 5-0 at the Etihad stadium last month in their match day 3 fixture.
In their following match four game, Sporting CP ended Man City’s record-breaking run in Rúben Amorim’s final Champions League game in charge before leaving for Man United.
Sporting CP’s sought after forward, Viktor Gyökeres contributed to the 4-1 demolition of the Cityzens with his hat-trick, thereby becoming one of only three players after Lionel Messi (2016) and Christopher Nkunku (2021) who have scored a Champions League hat-trick vs. Man City.
He’s also the first Sporting player to score a hat-trick in a Champions League/European Cup game since António Oliveira vs Dinamo Zagreb in 1982.
Tuesday night was only the third time a team managed by Pep Guardiola has conceded four goals in a UEFA Champions League match, along with a 4-0 defeat against Real Madrid with Bayern Munich in April 2014 and 4-0 defeat to Barcelona with Man City in October 2016.
