straight to your inboxPep Guardiola said his Manchester City players were well-prepared to play in an unusual formation before crashing out of the Champions League.The Blues began with three central defenders, but never truly looked like themselves until Guardiola switched things by replacing Fernandinho with Riyad Mahrez ten minutes into the second half.That led to the manager being severely criticised for tinkering with City’s set-up.But he said they had been developing it on their Lisbon training ground since last week.“I would say we worked three days about this, and we discussed about this and we reviewed about this,” he said.“When you play the last 15 to 20 minutes in that system so in the way we played it was really good so it's not.
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