Eight minutes In August

Eight minutes in August.
That was all it took to ruin a dream last season. Just eight minutes. In that time in Lisbon's Estadio Jose Alvalade, [/sport/teampages/manchester-city.html Manchester City]'s chances of a first Champions League triumph slipped away.
Drawing 1-1 with Lyon with 11 minutes of their quarter-final remaining, City conceded two quick goals.

They were bad ones too. In between, [/sport/raheem-sterling/index.html Raheem Sterling] missed a sitter. 
From right in it to categorically and conclusively dumped out of it.
All in the blink of an eye. Lyon were the seventh best team in [/news/france/index.html France] last season. It was a game City should not have lost and extratorrent coach [/sport/pep_guardiola/index.html Pep Guardiola] admitted on Monday that he took a while to get over it.
Pep Guardiola knows Man City and the Champions League have not been a good fit recently
It took eight minutes to ruin a dream for Manchester City in last season's Champions League
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