Pep Guardiola’s side suffered a shock 3-1 defeat to Lyon failing to qualify for yet another semi-final of the UEFA Champions League.
Manchester City were the favourites against the Ligue 1 team and the loss invited a lot of criticism towards Guardiola’s tactics and also the players.
As City’s UCL dream fell through, Bernardo Silva, who watched his team lose from the bench on Saturday, took to Twitter to apologise to the club fans for an awful European campaign.
The 2019/2020 season has ended for us in a very disappointing way. To all the fans, we’re sorry for this frustrating season. The only thing we can promise is that in 2020/2021 we’ll fight a lot to do much better and get back to winning important things for you guys! 🔵🔵
Naturally, fans of bitter rivals Liverpool took the occasion to pile on the Man City star on social media.
The Portuguese winger became a target among Liverpool supporters when he refused to applaud the Champions during their guard of honor in July.
Of course, the Kopites still remember the incident when Bernardo was caught along with other City players singing about Kompany injuring Salah and Liverpool fans getting battered in the streets in a video that went viral following the 2018/19 season.
Annoyed with all the banter aimed at him and City, Bernardo snapped and unleashed a brutal tweet towards Liverpool fans.
The Portuguese seemingly suggested how the Reds fans had nothing else to do in life rather than troll him and City –
And to all Liverpool fans that have nothing else to do than to come to a Man City player account, I’m also sorry for you but for the wrong reasons…😂 pathetic… go celebrate your titles, or try to find a partner, drink a beer with a friend, read a book…🤦🏻♂️ so many options!😅
It seemed that Reds defender Virgil van Dijk later responded to Bernardo’s jibe at LFC fans by simply tweeting the ‘smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat’ emoji with a picture of him looking rather smug. The post was later deleted.
