Barcelona end Manchester City's UEFA Champions League dream

It was another disappointing night for England in the UEFA Champions League campaign as Manchester City failed to make it to the next round. City were confronted with the hurdle of upturning a two-goal deficit which they incurred in the first leg encounter against Barcelona at the Etihad Stadium. Coming to the Camp Nou on Wednesday night, they lost 1-2 in what could be described as an end to a big dream

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Goals from Lionel Messi and Daniel Alves put Barcelona ahead while a late consolation form City's inspirational captain Vincent Kompany was inconsequential to their quest amidst several wrong calls by the official during the course of the match.

 

Sometimes one is left with no choice but to conclude that football or soccer as used in some other climes can be cruel, especially when the odds or result do not go as ''planned''.

Flowing form the match, it was clear that expectations, hopes and emotions were high with regards to the eventual outcome of the match at Camp Nou which makes it a bit difficult to rate City's performance on the night with the officiating concern. But meanwhile, may be it was actually wrong for City to dream of upturning the result or would you rather say that City didn't just do quite enough to beat Barcelona on the night?

Expectedly, City fought a good fight of of faith and fate but their prowress was not enough to take out Barcelona who were impressive and showed why they are still to be revered by other teams. If one is to take into consideration the recent form of Barcelona in the La Liga, you might want to say that it would be a difficult outing in the UCL but not with a City side that seem to have lost it at home when they had the chance to fight hard.

City had their destiny in the hands of the hands of the Catalans and that is not too good at this stage of the campaign. Both teams play different style of football and the truth be told, they were playing from different perspectives that is, Barcelona were working to kill the game off ensuring no goal was behind their net but City were on a double quest, first to match up the result and then get a victory.

Another casualty lost.... Not forgetting Arsenal a team also from England crashed  a day earlier while Chelsea and Manchester United hope to sustain the English presence in the UCL.