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Your support makes all the difference.Manchester City defender Bacary Sagna has revealed that he shouldn't have played in the defeat to Liverpool as he was still in shock from the Paris terror attacks.
The Frenchman was on the Stade de France pitch for the friendly against Germany on 13 November when bombs exploded outside; 130 people were killed in coordinated attacks across the French capital.
He then played in an emotional friendly against England on Tuesday at Wembley Stadium and believed he was ready to return to action against Liverpool on Saturday evening. However, the 32-year-old says he wasn't in the right frame of mind to play against the Reds.
"It was not easy to be part of that event," said Sagna. "Mentally I was ready. Physically I believed I was. But I wasn't. I tired quite quickly and didn't have as much power as I used to.
"Personally it's not my best week. But it's life, it's life and there's nothing you can do about it. It's part of the past now and just have to keep your head up.
"It's never easy when you come back from the national team and some of us have played many games. You don't have time to train, you don't have time to work."
Sagna, like many of his team-mates, played poorly during the 4-1 defeat to Jurgen Klopp's team. He lost the ball in the opening minutes leading to the Eliaquim Mangala own goal, then allowed Philippe Coutinho to burst into the box to make it 2-0.
"We were not good enough to compete and that's it," he added. "I don't want to blame the team, I look at myself first and I was bad. I don’t want to blame another guy. I was bad."
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