I guess you don&#x27;t follow the EPL closely. Pellegrini announced that he was leaving at the original date his contract ended (end of this season), thereby forcing the club to pre-emptively announce Pep Guardiola.<p>The reason we lost key ties against West Ham, Spurs and Liverpool was fielding players that are defensive liabilities vs. defensively sound ones – Kolarov and Yaya rather than Clichy and Fernando. He also didn&#x27;t adapt to the game and stuck with his gameplan so there weren&#x27;t any comebacks in the league. Surprisingly we came back more than twice in our CL campaign, against Sevilla and Borussia Mönchengladbach.