Manchester City remain alive in the tie but face long odds after a 3-0 first-leg defeat to Real Madrid. Pep Guardiola acknowledged the scale of the task and refused to pretend the situation is straightforward. \u201cIt is a bad result, we cannot deny it,\u201d Guardiola reflected.<\/p>\n
City are pursuing a rare feat: to become just the fifth home team to overturn a deficit of at least three goals in the Champions League knockout stages. Guardiola assessed the chances without false optimism. \u201cNow, not much but I\u2019m not a guy to say we\u2019re not going to try.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow it is most difficult [moment] to live but our mindset is we will look [at] what to do better, try to be more active in the final third and we will try.\u201d<\/p>\n
The competition has delivered a handful of extraordinary reversals. Deportivo La Coru\u00f1a are the first home team to overturn a three-goal deficit in the knockout rounds, recovering after a 4\u20131 first-leg defeat to AC Milan. With an away goal from the first leg, Deportivo overturned the tie in the second leg\u2019s first half, moving to a 3\u20130 lead before Fran Gonz\u00e1lez added a late effort to confirm the comeback.<\/p>\n
Barcelona produced the most celebrated example when they overturned a 4\u20130 away defeat at the Parc des Princes by beating Paris Saint-Germain with Sergi Roberto scoring in the fifth minute of stoppage time in a comeback that became known as La Remontada. Twelve months later Barcelona suffered the opposite fate, letting a 4\u20131 advantage slip against Roma when Kostas Manolas headed in the 82nd minute, prompting Peter Drury to call it: \u201cRoma have risen from their ruins! Manolas, the Greek God in Rome! The unthinkable unfolds before our eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barcelona also threw away a 3\u20130 lead against Liverpool in the 2018\u201319 semifinals, a tie remembered for a quickly taken corner that allowed Divock Origi to score.<\/p>\n
Bernardo Silva also refused to disguise the situation. \u201cAt 3\u20130 it makes it a bit more difficult,\u201d he reflected. \u201cNow it feels really bad, now it feels really dark. But tomorrow is another day and for sure next week we will go to the game thinking we have a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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