Manchester City were dumped out of the Club World Cup after suffering a stunning defeat to Al Hilal in Orlando.
Manchester City were hit on the break by Al Hilal in Orlando
Bernardo Silva slammed Manchester City's failure to control Al Hilal's counter-attacks after the Saudi side stunned the Blues in the last-16 of the Club World Cup.
City were beaten 4-3 after extra time in Orlando, losing a game they had looked in control of for the first 45 minutes, leading through Silva's 10th-minute goal.
They had dominated the game to that point, but suddenly found Al Hilal difficult to stop on the break. Simone Inzaghi's side scored twice in seven minutes at the start of the second half and although Erling Haaland equalised, they scored either side of a Phil Foden goal in extra-time to win the tie.
That sends the Saudi Pro League outfit into a quarter-final with Fluminense and leaves City facing an early exit after some familiar problems came back to haunt them in the United States.
"What lacked was from our side; a bit more concentration, a bit more organisation when we lost the ball to control, especially the transitions," he said.
"The ball we had again, the chances we had again. After all, we scored three and could've scored five, six.
"It was all about controlling when we lost the ball, controlling the transitions, don't let them run, and they ran away too many times. With one, two passes, there was always a feeling of danger coming from them.
"When we allow teams to run like this we always suffer a lot, and today was the case."
The shock defeat brought City back down to earth. They had won all three games in the group stage, and the 5-2 demolition of Juventus had suggested that they were getting back to their best.
It also opened the draw up for them, with a path to the final even clearer after Fluminense beat Inter, but City were unable to capitalise and looked crestfallen when the whistle blew in the Camping World Stadium.
"A lot of disappointment because we wanted to do better, we wanted to go to the quarter-finals, we had a lot of ambition for this competition," said Silva. "But yeah, it's football; they were good today.
"We didn't control some situations that we should've done better, but overall congratulations to them. They're a good team, very good individually, created us a lot of problems and they deserved [to win]."
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