Champions League: Manchester City 1-3 Lyon: Guardiola's side dumped out again after contentious Dembele strike

Lisbon, Aug 15: Manchester City again came unstuck against Lyon in the Champions League as a controversial 3-1 defeat saw Pep Guardiola miss out on a semi-final against his former club Bayern Munich.

Lyon won away to City in the 2018-19 group stage - also drawing at home - and they again had the tournament favourites' number in Lisbon on Saturday.

Maxwel Cornet scored in both prior meetings between the sides and was on target once more midway through the first half as City struggled to get to grips with the five-man defence named by Guardiola.

⏰ RESULT ⏰

🔴🔵 Cornet & Dembélé (2) send Lyon to semi-finals!

😮 Did you see that coming?#UCL

— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) August 15, 2020

That formation was ditched before the hour mark and Kevin De Bruyne equalised, but substitute Moussa Dembele restored Lyon's lead following a contentious counter-attack with 11 minutes remaining and then added another after an Ederson error.

Raheem Sterling remarkably missed an open goal between Dembele's decisive strikes as City suffered further European misery in stunning fashion.

Manchester City miss out on the semi-finals in dramatic fashion.#UCL pic.twitter.com/N6PFa2ISlR

— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) August 15, 2020