Manchester City winger Riyad Mahrez has offered an honest self-appraisal of their disappointing Champions League final defeat Last Season.
The Premier League champions, who finished 12 points clear last season, were left disappointed in their first ever Champions League final appearance after going down 1-0 to Chelsea in Porto.
Mahrez has claimed Man City have unfinished business in the Champions League after the defeat by Chelsea in May’s final.
‘We’ll take more confidence into Europe. We showed how good we are but that is no guarantee this year.
‘We deserved to win it. With the team we have and the football we were playing, we didn’t deserve to lose. I don’t think anyone spoke afterwards. Everyone was very sad. It was difficult to speak about anything.’
These Mahrez’s comment has prompt Plenty of Sky Blues to react on social media.
We didn’t deserve to win. We were awful on the night.
— Stephen Jordan (@flashcity69) August 12, 2021
If the players you had and the way you played meant you deserved to win then you wouldve. You didn’t win so clearly you didn’t deserve to. The team played like ass in the final.
— Popular 14th Century Author Geoff Chaucer (@ahugetroll) August 12, 2021
Team was good, just Pep overthinking tax
— 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓭 𝓒𝓲𝓽𝔂𝔃𝓮𝓷🦈💙 (@Proud_Cityzen) August 12, 2021
If Guardiola put a central midfielder in that final, I’m sure we could have won it, I hope Pep doesn’t keep making stupid mistakes in the Champions League
— Diego (@Dieguitocity) August 12, 2021
No. I’m city fan and there’s no way I can say city deserved to win the final. Absolutely disaster of a game with no striker and no cdm.
— vhoooosh (@vhoooosh) August 12, 2021
It was by far the worst game I’ve ever watched city play.
Riyad Mahrez also insisted that Manchester City will not suffer from complacency as they bid to retain the Premier League title.
‘A normal human being always becomes complacent when you start winning things,’ Mahrez said.
‘That’s human nature. We are here because the club chose us – they think we have the right mentality. The manager pushes us every day, every season. He never takes it easy.
‘Every season they say it’s going to be tighter and tighter and this season it will be to be fair. This season will be tough, Chelsea are very good – Liverpool, United, Arsenal, Tottenham, Leicester too. We are ready.
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