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Manchester City fans caused a 40-second delay before Bernardo Silva's disastrous penalty in his side's Champions League defeat to Real Madrid.

In a match dubbed the champions against the kings, nothing could separate the two sides across two games and it ended up with a penalty shootout, with Pep Guardiola's side coming up short.

City had an early advantage in the shootout when former Ballon d'Or winner Luka Modric saw his spot kick saved by Ederson, but Silva missed straight after and Kovacic also had his effort stopped.

Silva's miss came in bizarre fashion, with the Portugal star shooting straight down the middle and Madrid stopper Andriy Lunin standing still, easily blocking the effort to square the tie up once again.

But it didn't appear completely the player's fault, as he was made to wait to take his kick due to the ball being in the crowd and City fans not giving it back.

Silva stood waiting to take his kick as Italian referee Daniele Orsato asked for a new ball, and Silva looked on before it eventually returned from the crowd.

He then looked nervous as he stepped up to take the kick, and scooped it straight into the hands of a grateful Lunin.

Rio Ferdinand, working as a pundit on TNT Sports, highlighted the fact that it was Silva's own fans who were delaying the kick, before former City man Joleon Lescott highlighted how it would have ruined the star's preparations.

'It would have taken him out of sync,' Lescott said. 'The routine, technique. It is a long time, you start thinking. It is a soft penalty.'

Guardiola said of his player taking the penalty: 'He said he wanted to take one and he is a reliable player. But what a game he had.'

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