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IAN LADYMAN: Pep Guardiola will never have a better chance to end Manchester City's Champions League hoodoo... and the manager's rewatched last year's Real Madrid defeat to learn ahead of Spain trip

There are members of Manchester City's squad who have still never watched the moment last year's Champions League aspirations were washed away at the Bernabeu. For Pep Guardiola, that was never going to be an option. So the City manager sat down at home two days ago and watched again one of the most remarkable and catastrophic five minutes of his career unfold all over again.

'I watched the two games against Real again to see again what happened,' said Guardiola on Monday night.

'What I saw was that we played exceptionally but it was not enough.