Can Manchester City get out of their own way in Europe?

The Premier League’s runaway leaders have found things much tougher going in the Champions League of late. Can they turn the tide and reach the semi-finals this time around?

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola (POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

When you think of Pep Guardiola, you certainly don't think of failure.

Three Premier League titles - and a fourth in the post, league crowns in Spain and Germany too as well as two Champions League wins in charge of Barcelona will see the Spaniard rightly remembered as one of the great managers of his generation.

But it is in Europe, on football's biggest of all stages, where that imperious pedigree appears to have lost some of its shine of late.