Champions League, Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Manchester City: 5 Talking Points

#3 Did Manchester City get their lineup or for that matter anything right?

Not a thing that is usual, but Pep Guardiola got tactically outclassed by Mauricio Pochettino.

Riyad Mahrez in the right-wing, David Silva and Gundogan in the central midfield, Fernandinho in the defensive midfield, where was the pace and creativity? Riyad Mahrez had an utterly poor display with no shots, dribbles, only 24 passes and displayed a lack of penetration. The midfield was completely dead, to say the least.

Pep Guardiola's midfield has been dominant every time they have had a good game. Yesterday, oh forget it. 33 passes?

Is that what you expect from David Silva, an attacking midfielder? How many passes did the pivotal Fernandinho have? 32 out of 45, that means he misplaced 13 passes. 13 misplaced passes against Spurs in a Champions League quarterfinal.

Their gameplan was overthrown by Mauricio Pochettino but did the players really do enough on the pitch? There were no one-on-one chances created, there were no quick passing movements, there was only a 10-minute period in the game where City had Spurs on the ropes.

On top of it, Pep had Leroy Sane, Gabriel Jesus, and Kevin de Bruyne warming the benches for 70 minutes.

KDB and Sane were left on the bench for 88 minutes. This is after the poor showing by their counterparts on the pitch for the whole of the first half.

Aguero was poor, Mahrez was poor, David Silva was all over the place. The substitutions were right, but the timing wasn't.

And after the game, many realized that City's second-best player this season was not even in the squad. We are talking Bernardo Silva here.

The wrong lineup, ill-timed substitutions, wrong approach to a direct gameplan from Spurs, did they get anything right?