City were outplayed on the day, though Rodri was upbeat seeing so many youngsters on the Old Trafford pitch for the visitors.
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Academy graduates Rico Lewis, Max Alleyne, Nico O’Reilly and Divine Mukasa all saw action on the day.
"Football is like this. You lose and you learn from the past and you move on,” Rodri told City Studios after the game.
“The young lads are doing brilliant, of course they miss the experience some times but we need to help them because they are going to be important in the next years.
“This is the way you build teams. Sometimes you need to wait a little bit to create something bigger. it’s our reality.
“We dropped many points in the last games but still we are there.
“We are going to fight until the end.”