Pellegrini: Luck favoured Real Madrid against Man City

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini felt luck favoured Real Madrid as the La Liga team knocked his side out of the Champions League with a 1-0 win at the Bernabeu on Wednesday. 

“I don’t think that we deserved to lose. Madrid had a lot of luck with the goal, which took a deflection and ended up in the corner of the goal,” the Chilean said. 

“I don’t think either of the teams played a particularly creative game,” added Pellegrini, who will leave Man City at the end of the season having failed to reach a Champions League final. 

He recognised that his team didn’t create enough chances on goal and reiterated, for a second time, that Madrid “scored a really fortunate goal.” 

“Without [David] Silva and without [Samir] Nasri, and with [Sergio] Aguero and [Yaya] Toure not 100 percent, we lacked a little bit of creativity and that stopped us creating chances.” 

Pellegrini said that a fair result “would have been a draw, but Madrid got the luck. It is a missed opportunity for us. We tried, but we couldn’t do it.”