No matter how good you are, being a goal down to a team with 11 men in the box (and a lot of spirit) can be an extremely difficult task. Sometimes you equalize within 5 minutes and it's all ok with but often you don't. Because so much of the game is played in one box, there's just so little space. And tiny spaces don't work well with our midgets, because the bigger players can just barge them around.
Remember Pep's Barcelona came unstuck twice against shithouse bus parkers in the CL. The greatest team in history, Liverpool FC, almost lost against Manchester United because of their bus parking. PSG had it happen to them in the league last night against Dijon! It happens.
The best thing we can do is plow on, stick to what we do and believe. And it works more often than not.
Some of the play today was really good. After we conceded we looked really sharp down the left, and in the 2nd half we looked really incisive after Sterling moved to the right. And after then it was inevitable we'd succeed.
Not all perfect though. We were once again ridiculously wasteful with our finishing, final balls, and touches in the area. You'd hope this would even itself out over the season.
Also we crossed far too often, particularly in the first half. I can understand going for it if it's Aguero up against 1, 2, or even 3 others. We have some pinpoint crossers of the ball and he's a sharp mover, so in that circumstance you'd maybe think he can get on the end of a few. But if they've got everyone back like they did you need the perfect cross, you need Aguero to free himself perfectly, and then on top of that you need him to hit it perfectly, because it might be his only aerial chance. No surprises the low one got to him.
Even though it wasn't his best game I did think Sterling showed some real signs of his development today. Some great aggressive dribbling at times, some nice passing ideas and multiple sharp passes into the box in the second half.