We required penalties to overcome the Europa League winners in Athens after Cole Palmer‘s header had cancelled out Youssef En-Nesyri’s first-half finish.
Despite being behind for 38 minutes of game time, City dominated the statistics throughout the night.
We enjoyed 74% of the ball and ended up with 23 shots on Sevilla’s goal.
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Reflecting on the game, Guardiola acknowledged the impact of his own goalkeeper but insisted that City had been the better side during the 90 minutes.
“I remember a lot of finals where the keeper was the key player,” he said.
“Of course the finish from En-Nesyri was not perfect but Ederson saved it.
“Apart from that the game was under control in the first half I remember other than the one chance they scored.
“Except the first 10 minutes of the second half after we controlled it and made more and more passes. We controlled the game and at the end we scored.
“In the last minutes we had the feeling the team that could score would be us.”
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