Your Liverpool digest for Friday, May 6.
'Can’t deny it' - Pep Guardiola makes Man City admission before title battle with Liverpool
Pep Guardiola believes his Manchester City side will need a couple of days to come to terms with their Champions League defeat to Real Madrid on Wednesday night.
City, after taking the lead through Riyad Mahrez, had a final spot snatched away from them in Spain as Rodrygo scored twice in stoppage time to make it 2-1 to Madrid on the night and 5-5 on aggregate to send the tie to extra-time.
Karim Benzema's penalty then won it for the La Liga side to set up a final showdown against Liverpool in Paris at the end of this month. And speaking after the game, Guardiola admitted the defeat was 'tough' on his side, who he also believes will rise again.
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The City boss said: “We need one or two days but we will rise, we will come up. We will have do so, with our people. We did everything we could. We were really, really close but in the end we could not do it.”
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What happened at 35,000 feet as Liverpool fans found out Real Madrid result on Ryanair plane
The first whispers of the remarkable story in Madrid came at around 35,000 feet over France on Wednesday night.
With Liverpool supporters on board a delayed flight from Valencia to Manchester, having seen their team reach the final of the Champions League the night before in Villarreal, the desire to find out the identity of their opposition in Paris was tangible.
And then, somehow, ingenuity took over and a scarcely believable scoreline was shared across the Ryanair flight.
Real Madrid 3-1 Manchester City.
The whispers had grown into full-grown shouts by the time they reached the back of the plane. One supporter, who had been watching the game on his phone until moments before the flight took off and was aghast at Riyad Mahrez securing what had appeared a final appearance for City, was roused from his slumber to be informed of the important news.
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