A player in Manchester City only arrived a few hours before his side at the hotel of the team in Madrid to play Real Madrid in their must-win Champions League-equal game on Wednesday evening, according to reports in Spain.
Pep Guardiola's side is confronted with an unthinkable second half of the season without European football after stuttering form in their competition phase of the top match.
Man City was then really pulled against the Spanish giants for their play-off draw and has to go back from a shortage of one goal after a 3-2 defeat at Etihad last week.
The Brace van Erling Haaland was not enough to give the hosts the upper hand on a home floor with Jude Bellingham who won the deceased winner to transfer the benefit to the players of Carlo Ancelotti.
The victory in the Bernabeu will provide a place in the round of 16 – but in his press conference on Tuesday evening Guardiola said that the team's chance to earn one was only 'one percent'.
But while Guardiola and his men went to the Spanish capital on time to guarantee a full night's sleep for the Crunch collision, one player was caught in the hotel remarkably.
January signing of Abdukodir Khusanov was seen at 12.40 pm in the Cityzen's Hotel in the Spanish capital in the Spanish capital by the cameras of the Spanish program El Chiringuito, despite the Uzbekistan star who made Guardiola's Squadlist.
The hosts of the show wondered if the player was 'okay', but noticed that he looked in good health and 'arrived safely'.
Khusanov still has to perform in the European side of Guardiola after his £ 33 million January, but is a consistent fixture since arriving from the lens during last month's transfer window.
The defender also started the Weekendbind of Man City, opposite Newcastle in their Roming 4-0 win in the Etihad.
Guardiola was adamant on Tuesday that his party should try the impossible in an attempt to secure their European future.
“You have to make an almost perfect game,” Guardiola said. “We have to play with courage, be ourselves. We have to play to win the game. The pressure is there, it is more than welcome.
'If you do not perform well with the pressure, it is what it is. It depends on how we play, how we deal with the big moments in these stadiums. '
But in a positive boost in front of his side, Guardiola confirmed that Haaland, who lets a knee injury learned in Newcastle's defeat on Saturday, as a normal trained for the competition.
Jack Grealish, Ruben Dias and Nathan Ake, who were all absent during the weekend, were also involved.
“They traveled. We will see how they are, but it's good news that they are here, “the Spaniard confirmed.
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