Man City lost 3-1 to Lyon in their Champions League quarterfinal on 15 August 2020, but the expected goals metric paints a different story of the match-City dominated in terms of possession and shots, and actually finished with a xG of 2.68, as opposed to OL’s 0.87 xG.
Stats- xG score of individual goals in City-OL
0-1 Maxwell Cornet 24 (xG 0.11)
1-1 Kevin de Bruyne 69 (xG 0.06)
1-2 Moussa Dembele 79 (xG 0.11)
1-3 Moussa Dembele 87 (xG 0.51)
This shocking Raheem Sterling miss vs Lyon is probably one that will haunt the Man City forward for a long, long time as he missed a golden opportunity to equalise for the Citizens in the 86th minute of the game at 2-1. The bad part- just seconds later, OL ended up scoring at the other end of the pitch to make it 3-1!
This Laporte vs Dembele incident had plenty of City fans fuming, with the defender claiming that he had been fouled by goal scorer Moussa Dembele in the buildup. Pundit and former defender Rio Ferdinand seemed to think that Dembele did foul Laporte. City players also thought Toko Ekambi was offside, but his dummy allowed Dembele to progress and score