Monaco 2 – 2 Man City

The Manchester City blues outside haunted them again while Monaco seized a 2-2 draw at the end of the Champions League League throughout Eric Dier's controversial penalty.

City apparently headed for a deserved victory in the dying minutes when referee Jesus Gil Manzano was sent to the Var instructor to review Nico Gonzalez on Dier on a free kick, which he finally ruled a fault – with a certain number of members of the staff of the great -back on a visit sent while the tensions took place.

Even without wishing to criticize the decision directly, Pep Guardiola clearly took a problem with the referee's appeal, saying later TNT SPORTS: “We did not defend [the free-kick] Perfectly, we conceded a penalty despite touching the ball first, he touched the opponent but also touched the ball. “”

Dier went from 12 yards to send Gianluigi Donnarumma in the wrong direction, and stretch the race without the victory of Man City in the tournament in a second year – 12 months until the day since they won a match for the last time on the road to Slovan Bratislava.

Even with this decision, City should have been out of sight after hitting the transverse bar twice and accumulating 18 shots without succeeding in adding Haaland Double to their first half.

The great Norwegian was again in good shape to mark twice before the break of only seven keys – with a kick -off.

A skilled film on the Lofted pass by Josko Gvardiol after 14 minutes was its first touch of the night, but the intrigue on its efficiency was short -lived when Jordan Teze folded a beautiful equalizer of 20 yards in the upper corner three minutes later.

Phil Foden hit the bar in the middle of the growing domination of the city before Haaland could ultimately propel a head of Nico O'Reilly beyond Philipp Kohn for his second just before the break.

“I always think that I am involved in the game with my movements, giving space to others. It is not only a question of touching the ball if you are in the game or not,” he said TNT SPORTS After the match.

City should have added in their advance with the Tijjani Reijnders also denied by the woodwork after the interval, and Haaland aroused a good chance for his hat -trick shortly after.

Visitors seemed some to go out victorious but, without succeeding in increasing their fragile lead, it was made late when Gonzalez's challenge was punished in the most difficult terms.

Guardiola: Many things were against us

Manager of the man of the city PEP Guodiola has TNT SPORTS:

“I have not seen the statistics or the chances, but I think we were much more energetic than them, sometimes it is not possible. Many things were against us in situations.

“Haaland played really well. He plays to score goals, to have chances. The team was really, really good.”

By removing Rodri after an hour: “It's step by step, we have to do it. Eighty minutes, it's too much.”

Haaland: We don't deserve to win

Scorer Erling Haaland has TNT SPORTS::

“I don't think we played quite well. We don't deserve to win. We need more energy. We needed to do more what we did in the first half. We dominated much more and then in the second period, they took the lead a lot more. It's not good enough.

“”I have not seen [the penalty]. I don't know, if you kick the face, I suppose it is a penalty. “”

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