Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, suffered an unwanted milestone on Wednesday following his team’s 3–0 defeat to Real Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League round-of-16 tie.
The Spaniard watched as Federico Valverde’s first-half hat trick gave the LaLiga champions a commanding advantage at the Santiago Bernabéu ahead of next week’s return leg.
According to OptaJoe, the loss marks Guardiola’s joint-heaviest defeat in a first-leg UEFA Champions League knockout match, equaling previous 3–0 losses to Barcelona in the 2014–15 semi-finals and Liverpool in the 2017–18 quarter-finals.
City will now turn their focus back to domestic competition as they prepare to face West Ham United in the Premier League this weekend.