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.”
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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.”