City still played like champions of Europe for long periods but a lack of decisive end product proved their undoing
There are ways of losing, and Pep Guardiola made clear that this one, in a game his team dominated, in a shootout they threw away, was acceptable and that he had made his peace with it.
All but a small handful of Manchester City players and staff had already retired to the dressing room, dazed and doubtless a little confused about what had just unfolded, by the time Bernardo Silva started his slow trudge off the pitch.
Arsenal make a bitterly disappointing exit from the Champions League as they are beaten by Bayern Munich at Allianz Arena.