Kevin De Bruyne insists Raheem Sterling should not carry the can for Manchester City's latest Champions League meltdown. Sterling, has topped the Etihad goal charts with 31 this season, but he missed a glorious late chance to equalise in City's quarter-final defeat to Lyon on Saturday night with Pep Guardiola's men trailing 2-1.
Just 59 seconds later, City's fate was sealed when former Celtic striker Mouussa Dembele scored his second goal of the game.
De Bruyne claimed the failure of Guardiola to guide the Blues beyond the last eight for the fourth successive year was collective rather than individual.
He said: “I don’t blame Raheem. It’s football. He did so many good things so that’s the way it goes. “We still had seven or eight minutes.
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