Pep Guardiola's Man City admission as Liverpool fans find out final opponents

Your Liverpool digest for Friday, May 6.

Pep Guardiola believes his Manchester City side will need a couple of days to come to terms with their Champions League defeat to Real Madrid on Wednesday night.

City, after taking the lead through Riyad Mahrez, had a final spot snatched away from them in Spain as Rodrygo scored twice in stoppage time to make it 2-1 to Madrid on the night and 5-5 on aggregate to send the tie to extra-time.

Karim Benzema's penalty then won it for the La Liga side to set up a final showdown against Liverpool in Paris at the end of this month. And speaking after the game, Guardiola admitted the defeat was 'tough' on his side, who he also believes will rise again.

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The City boss said: “We need one or two days but we will rise, we will come up. We will have do so, with our people. We did everything we could. We were really, really close but in the end we could not do it.”

The first whispers of the remarkable story in Madrid came at around 35,000 feet over France on Wednesday night.

With Liverpool supporters on board a delayed flight from Valencia to Manchester, having seen