City still played like champions of Europe for long periods but a lack of decisive end product proved their undoing
There are ways of losing, and Pep Guardiola made clear that this one, in a game his team dominated, in a shootout they threw away, was acceptable and that he had made his peace with it.
Pep Guardiola admitted Real Madrid were ‘a little bit better’ in the penalty shootout as Bayern Munich progressed to the semi-finals