Pep Guardiola comes out swinging with epic response to Evra & Berbatov's criticism of Man City

A number of people have been heavily critical of the manner in which Manchester City exited the Champions League.

The Citizens were on the verge of booking a place in the final at the Bernabeu, but they saw their 2-0 advantage on aggregate vanish in a flash during two bonkers minutes.

A brace from Rodrygo Goes in stoppage-time levelled things up and Karim Benzema then fired home the winner for Real Madrid from the penalty spot in extra-time.

It was an epic collapse by City and fingers have been pointed in manager Pep Guardiola‘s direction, most notably by ex-Manchester United player Patrice Evra.

The Frenchman said in part of his rant: “Manchester City needs leaders, but Guardiola doesn’t want leaders. He doesn’t want personality. He’s the leader. That’s why when they’re in trouble they don’t want to.

“They don’t have anyone on the pitch to help them. He chooses his teams like that; he can’t train people with personality. He did it at Barcelona, ​​but he builds his team to control everyone.”

Evra’s former teammate Dimitar Berbatov was also critical of City’s nightmare in Madrid, the Bulgarian likening it to Bayern Munich’s failure in the 1999 final against United.

Well, it seems Guardiola has finally had enough of the condemnation of his team.

In his latest press conference ahead of City’s Premier League match versus West Ham, the Spaniard fired back with a quite epic reponse.