BBC's chief football writer Phil McNulty looks at what went wrong for Manchester City against Lyon and what now for Pep Guardiola's side.
The League Cup was won against Aston Villa but their Premier League title was lost tamely to Liverpool, while the FA Cup holders lost 2-0 to Arsenal in the semi-final.
City were undone at the quarter-final stage last year by the merest touch and a VAR offside in the final seconds of the second leg against Tottenham, and here they can certainly offer a valid complaint about injustice. It led to a dull first half lacking in creation. City, by Guardiola's own hand, gave Lyon confidence. He looked like he was guilty of over-thinking it again, a common problem with his previous Champions League strategies. Lyon are a decent side, they put Juventus out after all, but good enough for Guardiola to change tack so crucially? Surely not.
City won the title under Roberto Mancini and Manuel Pellegrini and while nothing must be taken away from Guardiola, he was appointed as the man who would cross that final frontier and claim the trophy that would be confirmation of the club's arrival as a European superpower. City drew level with Lyon in the 69th minute thanks Kevin de Bruyne's strike - but they were behind agan 10 minutes later
Foden will fill that vacancy, while the promising Spanish attacker Ferran Torres has arrived from Valencia, but it is further back where Guardiola has his most pressing needs.
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