Bernardo Silva admitted the pain of crashing out of the Club World Cup is similar to exiting the Champions League after Manchester City‘s shock defeat by Al-Hilal.
Pep Guardiola‘s men were left shell-shocked after the Saudi Arabian side pulled off a breathless 4-3 extra-time win in Orlando.
City twice came from behind but were finally vanquished by a scruffy goal from Marcos Leonardo after 112 minutes.
City have banked an estimated £37.8million and get more of a break before the Premier League season, so it is not all doom and gloom, but Silva was disappointed.
‘It does feel a little bit like going out of the Champions League, yeah,’ he admitted.
‘No one wanted to lose, we are very used to not having holidays unfortunately because the schedule is crazy. But when we are in a competition we take it very seriously and we had a lot of ambition for this Club World Cup and we wanted to win it.
There was always a feeling of danger coming from them when they recovered the ball in transition and their counters. The amount of time we allowed them to run was bad for us, they punished us.
‘We allowed them to run way too many times, we didn’t control the offensive transitions as well as we should have and apart from that we had chances, we scored three goals and we could have scored five or six.
‘Most teams that beat us play this way. We are very used to playing teams like this. We’ve played against teams like this for eight or nine years and we didn’t control those situations.
‘I’ve had a lot of disappointments and a lot of great things happening to me in my career. So whatever happened in this competition, in one month when we start the Premier League, we will forget and focus on having a great season.
‘We’ve had a lot of frustrations in the past as well, and we managed to come back. We’re going to try and do that again, knowing that we have a lot of competition, but we’re going to work very hard.’
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