Their Champions League exit at the hands of Real Madrid means the club will receive around £26million ($33m) less from UEFA

Pep Guardiola said Manchester City must now fight to qualify for next season's Champions League after Kylian Mbappé's hat trick for Real Madrid sent the Premier League champions crashing out of the competition before the Round of 16.

Manager Pep Guardiola said Manchester City's times of greatness are gone as the Premier League holders crashed out of the Champions League on Wednesday with a humbling 6-3 aggregate defeat to Real Madrid in the knockouts.

Preview, watch live, prediction for Man City v LiverpoolPep Guardiola's City are reeling from their midweek defeat at Real Madrid which saw them knocked out of the UEFA Champions League. They have injury doubts over big players but have picked up plenty of wins in the Premier League in recent weeks to suggest they will finish in the top four but are surely too far behind to mount a late surge for the title.

Real Madrid have won the away first leg of a European tie on 40 occasions. If Pep Guardiola wants a sense of how hard the task ahead of them is it is perhaps encapsulated in one statistic -- only on two of the previous 39 occasions have Los Merengues been eliminated from European competition.

Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher believes this weekend’s big game at the Etihad Stadium could basically end up being the title decider in this season’s Premier League.Even if Manchester City