Get the City transfer window latest, team news, match updates and analysis delivered straight to your inbox Pep Guardiola declared that it is "impossible to control" Lionel Messi after his ex-Barcelona star sank Manchester City in the Champions League.
But the Blues boss declared his "love" for another Paris Saint-Germain star after his team went down 2-0 in the group game at Parc des Princes.
The magical 34-year-old Messi has been struggling to find his feet since the shock move to Paris in the summer but he burst into life to put this group game beyond the Blues.
Picking the ball up deep, he drove straight at the heart of the City defence, played a wall pass off Kylian Mbappe and unerringly thrashed it into the top corner to make it
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