Borussia Dortmund Facility Man City City in the opening of Champions Cup

Pep Guardiola's pre-season debut ended in a loss to Borussia Dortmund captain Mario Gotze, who beat Premier League champions Manchester City 1-0 at Soldier Field in Chicago

. To attract the attention of Riyad Mahrez and German Leroy Sane, his young and inexperienced team failed to gain the upper hand over a team from Dortmund who have already played a game this summer. The winner of Gotze arrived in the 28th minute when American international Christian Pulisic was hoisted into the penalty box, allowing the midfielder who scored the winning goal of the 2014 World Cup final to beat Claudio Bravo.
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Mahrez showed flashes of his quality but Guardiola will be disappointed with the lack of cutting edge on the show.
Most of his winning Premier League team enjoying an extended break after their efforts at the World Cup, it was an inexperienced team sent by the Spaniard to Soldier Field

Mahrez, the $ 75 million signature of Leicester, his debut while young English midfielder Phil Foden also started

There was a healthy crowd of 34,629 in Soldier Field and although a young team of the city stood up, Dortmund created the best odds with Gotze Pulisic.

Mahrez was City's best player, a decent race and cross center in the first half showed his offensive threat.

But at 28 minutes, the Germans were in front. Alex Zinchenko, who is expected to leave the club before the start of the English national season, knocked off the lively Pulisic in the penalty area and Gotze beat Bravo before Alexander Isak made almost two goals afterwards.

They did better just before the interval when he missed a shot at close range and Mahrez forced a great rescue from Dortmund goalkeeper Marwin Hitz.

Nevertheless, Guardiola would have been too aware of his team's lack of killer instinct. ] Former starlet of Etihad Jadon Sancho, who left the Premier League club for Dortmund last August following a showdown with Guardiola, was launched in the second half and started off in a promising manner .

Joe Hart, former English goalkeeper Apparition of the city since August 2016 but it is the Hitz number that was beaten in the 55th minute when another Mahrez flew over the post.

The Algerian pbad allowed Lukas Nmecha to advance to 70 minutes but his finish was lacking before Hart produced an excellent white point except to deny Mahmoud Dahoud.

Dortmund, however, stood firm to seal a deserved victory.

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| Published by: Abhimanyu Sen