'Way too many' - Bernardo Silva on Man City problems that 'always' hurt them

Manchester City were dumped retired of the Club World Cup aft suffering a stunning decision to Al Hilal successful Orlando.

Manchester City were deed connected the interruption by Al Hilal successful Orlando

Bernardo Silva slammed Manchester City's nonaccomplishment to power Al Hilal's counter-attacks aft the Saudi broadside stunned the Blues successful the last-16 of the Club World Cup.

City were beaten 4-3 aft other clip successful Orlando, losing a crippled they had looked successful power of for the archetypal 45 minutes, starring done Silva's 10th-minute goal.

They had dominated the crippled to that point, but abruptly recovered Al Hilal hard to halt connected the break. Simone Inzaghi's broadside scored doubly successful 7 minutes astatine the commencement of the 2nd fractional and though Erling Haaland equalised, they scored either broadside of a Phil Foden extremity successful extra-time to triumph the tie.

That sends the Saudi Pro League outfit into a quarter-final with Fluminense and leaves City facing an aboriginal exit aft immoderate acquainted problems came backmost to haunt them successful the United States.

"What lacked was from our side; a spot much concentration, a spot much organisation erstwhile we mislaid the shot to control, particularly the transitions," helium said.

"The shot we had again, the chances we had again. After all, we scored 3 and could've scored five, six.

"It was each astir controlling erstwhile we mislaid the ball, controlling the transitions, don't fto them run, and they ran distant excessively galore times. With one, 2 passes, determination was ever a feeling of information coming from them.

"When we let teams to tally similar this we ever endure a lot, and contiguous was the case."

The daze decision brought City backmost down to earth. They had won each 3 games successful the radical stage, and the 5-2 demolition of Juventus had suggested that they were getting backmost to their best.

It besides opened the gully up for them, with a way to the last adjacent clearer aft Fluminense bushed Inter, but City were incapable to capitalise and looked crestfallen erstwhile the whistle blew successful the Camping World Stadium.

"A batch of disappointment due to the fact that we wanted to bash better, we wanted to spell to the quarter-finals, we had a batch of ambition for this competition," said Silva. "But yeah, it's football; they were bully today.

"We didn't power immoderate situations that we should've done better, but wide congratulations to them. They're a bully team, precise bully individually, created america a batch of problems and they deserved [to win]."

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