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Manchester City vs Feyenoord as it happened: Pep Guardiola's side leave it late

Relive the action from the Etihad Stadium

Wednesday 22 November 2017 00:33 GMT
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City beat Feyenoord 1-0 at home
City beat Feyenoord 1-0 at home (Getty)

Pep Guardiola admitted his Manchester City side were below their best as they edged out Feyenoord 1-0 to top their Champions League group.

City needed an 88th-minute winner from Raheem Sterling at the Etihad Stadium to extend their club record winning run to 17 matches.

By recent standards it was a flat performance from City but, having already secured a place in the last 16, Guardiola chose to focus on the result.

Guardiola said: "A win is better than not. We are going to analyse the performance - the first half we could do better - but sometimes it is difficult having won lots of games and being already qualified. We didn't have the right tension to play but that is normal.

"We are still winning and we made a fantastic goal, from Raz after an excellent pass from (Ilkay) Gundogan."

Relive the action below:

What time does it start?

The game kicks off at 7.45pm on Tuesday 21 November.

Where can I watch it?

The game will be broadcast on BT Sport/ESPN.

It’s a big game for…

Bernardo Silva. The winger has yet to establish himself in City's first team but has been promised a starting role against Feyenoord and has the opportunity to force himself into Guardiola's reckoning for what is a packed fixture list heading into the Chrismas period.

Bernardo Silva in action at Feyenoord
Bernardo Silva in action at Feyenoord (Getty)

Remember when…

City visited Feyenoord in September? The Manchester club racked up three goals within 25 minutes and ran out comfortable 4-0 winners.

Player to watch...

Steven Berghuis. The winger spent last season on loan at Feyenoord from Watford, scoring eight goals, and already has seven this season after making the move permanent in the summer.

Steven Berghuis is in rich form
Steven Berghuis is in rich form (Getty)

Form guide…

Manchester City: DWWWW

Feyenoord: LDWDD

Odds…

Manchester City to win: 7/100

Draw: 10/1

Feyenoord to win: 22/1

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GOAL ALERT! Manchester City 1-0 Feyenoord (Sterling, 88)

Raheem Sterling grabs what is surely a late, late winner for Manchester City at the Etihad!

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90' - Four minutes of added time to come in Seville. Can Liverpool hold on to their lead and take home a vital three points that will see them into the last 16?

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GOAL! Sevilla 3-3 Liverpool (Pizarro)

90+3' - Sevilla equalise deep into stoppage time and it's the substitute, Guido Pizarro, who stabs home after a corner! It's like Istanbul again but in reverse!

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Full-time - Sevilla 3-3 Liverpool

The final whistle has gone and Liverpool, who led 3-0 at half-time, are forced to settle for a point after Guido Pizarro's 93rd-minute equaliser for the hosts!

Stay tuned for reaction to that match as well as Manchester City's win over Feyenoord and Tottenham's impressive victory away to Borussia Dortmund.

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Reaction from Manchester City match-winner Raheem Sterling

The England winger earned all three points for City with his 88th-minute strike against Feyenoord.

"They kept really solid, we were slow on the ball. They dug in deep and stayed in the game as long as possible.

"It's always good to score but it's more important to win, even if it's ugly sometimes."

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Full-time scores from around Europe

  • Besiktas 1-1 Porto
  • Spartak Moscow 1-1 Maribor
  • APOEL 0-6 Real Madrid
  • Dortmund 1-2 Spurs
  • Manchester City 1-0 Feyenoord
  • Monaco 1-4 RB Leipzig
  • Napoli 3-0 Shakhtar Donetsk
  • Sevilla 3-3 Liverpool
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Post-match reaction from Jurgen Klopp

His analysis of the match: "It was a very good first half, a not very good second half. We stopped playing football in the second half and let them come back in the game. When you're the winning team, you should avoid this. We have one real weapon and that's playing football and we didn't do that in the second half. "

On whether his players were complacent after half-time: "I think it was OK that we were confident after the first half. They had the free-kick and then they had the penalty. It's obvious what we did. The real problem is that we stopped playing football. 3-0 is a wonderful score, there was nothing bad to say at half-time. Our main mistake was that we didn't play football anymore, we got passive and were a little bit too deep. They fought back. Big credit to them but we had to do differently."

On how Sevilla's first goal changed the match and the atmosphere at the stadium: "The atmosphere would've been the same at Anfield (after the first goal of the comeback). It feels like we lost but we didn't lose. At the moment it feels really bad."

Quotes from BT Sport

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Those quotes from Jurgen Klopp conclude our coverage of tonight's European action. Join us again tomorrow for another action-packed evening of Champions League football!

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