Manchester City never do it the easy way, but a dramatic 3-2 win over Aston Villa on Sunday confirmed Pep Guardiola's side as the Premier League champions for the fourth time in five seasons.
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Mentality. Weak character. They need to get over it.
Those are all words and phrases that have been banded about over the days since Manchester City's dramatic Champions League exit at the hands of Real Madrid. Perhaps it's only natural that we as football supporters and journalists demand the most damning of explanations for the most shocking of collapses, but in this instance, the glove just doesn't fit.
Asked on Friday whether City had suffered some sort of mental collapse between the first and second Real Madrid goals - scored 89 seconds apart - Guardiola launched into a fascinating and passionate dissection of the criticisms levelled at his players.
"There is no time for [it to be] mental," he said of the reason for City conceding two goals in quick succession. "It was 45 seconds.
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"There is no time to fall. That's why when we speak about analysis and data, how does that control how players feel in that moment?
"What happened? It's football. It's football. Now the people say lack of character. Lack of character? What happens if Grealish scores? It's character? What happened when Edi [Ederson] saved from [Angel] Correa against Atletico? That's character but if he scores it's no character. When Courtois saves with his feet and goes to the corner, that is no character?"
The fact that City gave the ball straight back to Madrid from the kick-off after the first goal has drawn criticism - deservedly so - but Guardiola refused to believe that this was down to some kind of mental or character flaw.
"Margins are this, we have to handle it," he said. "Maybe we have more time after the kick-off, know exactly when to go long ball from Ederson. You
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