Jamie Redknapp believes Manchester City's loss to Barcelona on Wednesday night will not define Manuel Pellegrini's future at the club.
The Premier League holders were eliminated at the Champions League Round of 16 stage for the second year running, heaping further pressure on the Chilean, but Redknapp feels previous defeats this term may be the downfall of the current City boss.
"I do not think this game will determine what will happen with Pellegrini at the end of the season," he said on Sky Sports.
"Losing at home to Middlesbrough in the FA Cup, at home to Newcastle in the Capital One Cup and at Burnley on Saturday, they are the results that will affect what will happen to Pellegrini.
"If you look at the game last year against Barcelona, they competed much better over the two legs. I think today there was a huge gulf in class and if the goalkeeper (Joe Hart) had not played as well as he did, it could have been three or four."
The former Liverpool midfielder added: "Is Pellegrini the man to take the club forward? We talk about naivety in the first game playing 4-4-2 against Barcelona where they got outnumbered and punished, as you cannot play 4-4-2 against them.
"And that is where his legacy will stand, in the big games, and he has not won now in his last 16 games against Barcelona, which is just not good enough as a manager."
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