Why Rico Lewis was frustrated with his Man of the Match performance for Man City vs Young Boys

Rico Lewis earned the UEFA Player of the Match award during Manchester City's Champions League win over Young Boys.

Rico Lewis' meteoric rise at Manchester City continued with a Player of the Match performance in the Champions League at Young Boys - but the teenager was more frustrated with one particular aspect of his game at full time.

Lewis started a second-successive Champions League game after shining in midfield in Leipzig earlier this month, this time lining up in his more familiar inverted right-back role in Switzerland. He reacted well to close attention from the Young Boys midfield, and his composure earned him the Player of the Match award by UEFA's Technical Observer Panel.

However, speaking after the game, Lewis' mind immediately went to the goal City conceded - a simple ball down the middle for Meschack Elia to score - and his role in the sloppy defending that allowed the chance.

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"I've been wanting this for a while," he said of his personal award to TNT Sports. "Today I'm a bit frustrated with myself for the goal against us, I could have done better but after five minutes I let it go, tried to create more chances for us, created a little chance for Erling and got back into the game. I'm buzzing."

Lewis also praised his teammates for taking their chances in the second half in some testing circumstances on an artificial pitch, while defending two-goal striker Erling Haaland for his mixed evening that ended with two goals but saw him miss a number of chances.

"It was a difficult game, a different challenge," he said. "The surface, weather, they're used to the environment. Wer'e so good at adapting and we played so well in the first half. It was a bit back and forth in the second but we got the job done.

"That's how it goes, [when] there's a lot of chances, if you don't take them it could be difficult. But we got the job done, the forwards scored their chances and we won the game.

"He's [Haaland] like any other striker, people get onto him more than others because of the year he had last year. He's come away with two goals and people call him anxious but he's come away with two goals today. A credit to him and what he's done last year."