Bernardo Silva has admitted that being eliminated in the Champions League by Tottenham Hotspur is the defeat that has 'cost me the most in my career.'

It was a breathtaking game at the Etihad that saw five goals within 21 minutes and was brimming with unimaginable drama until the end.

After surrendering their aggregate lead, City were in desperate need of a goal in the final embers of the game and thought they had clicnhed it when Raheem Sterling displayed unreal composure to glide pass a challenge and fire the ball home.

The City supporters and players were sent into delirium but the celebrations were cruelly, though correctly, cut short when the goal was ruled out for offside in the build up.

It meant City crashed out of the Champions League at the quarter-final stage for the second year in a row, after being favourites for the competition.

Bernardo, who scored one of the goals in the game, has opened up on his heartbreak of the defeat.

“Maybe it was the defeat that cost me the most in my career," the Portuguese told RTP.

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“Because I thought this was our year. Because I thought we were ready.

“And so we lost in the quarter-finals against an English team that we know well, and that, in my opinion, we’ve proven to be better than them in recent years. It was hard.”

City will have another opportunity to win Europe's biggest prize next season and they'll be in pot one for the group stages.