PEP GUARDIOLA says Manchester City volition springiness everything to beryllium portion of the 1 per cent nine erstwhile they question to the Bernabeu connected Wednesday.
Their Champions League hopes are hanging by a thread aft the melodramatic 3-2 decision to Real Madrid astatine the Etihad successful the archetypal limb past week.
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GettyHowever, City volition question to Spain and look their aged rivals successful bully bosom aft their champion show of the play saw them thrash Newcastle 4-0 connected Saturday.
Although they won against the kings of Europe connected their ain spot 5 years ago, Pep knows the likelihood are stacked against them repeating it.
But helium says that nary substance however “minimal” the accidental is they person to effort to drawback it against Carlo Ancelotti’s holders.
Guardiola said: “It’s amended to question to Madrid with this effect [4-0 against Newcastle], than with a last-minute defeat, oregon immoderate defeat.
“So of course, the triumph helps us, but the borderline to triumph successful Bernabeu successful that position, everybody knows what it is.
“If we’d kept the 2-1 pb we had with 5 minutes to go, it would beryllium antithetic but with 2-3 we cognize what the accidental is. The effect was not good.
“If you inquire earlier the crippled what the percent to spell done is, we’d get astatine astir 1 per cent oregon I don’t cognize what.
“It volition beryllium minimal, but arsenic overmuch arsenic you person a chance, we volition try, that’s for sure.
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“Like we ever bash — truthful let’s spot what happens.”
City fans took large bosom from their ascendant show against the Toon –— who are rivalling them for a apical 4 spot this season.
But the manager is refusing to get carried distant by 1 effect and feels the issues that person held them backmost successful caller months inactive request to beryllium resolved.
He said: “This season, the world is we person been miles, miles away.
“If we’d performed similar we did connected Saturday, would we person finished 22nd successful the Champions League table?
“Of people not, we would person finished higher, but the world is we person been really, truly mediocre successful show successful the results this season.
“Just for 1 game, connected Saturday, we played truly bully but it’s not going to alteration the opinion, the reality, the team.
“We are inactive not bully successful presumption of time by day.
“There are many, galore games that we were playing the level we wanted to play and astatine the end, we mislaid it.
“It was not conscionable the 3 points, it’s however [it was] affecting our minds for the next game. It happened a batch of times.”
Guardiola decided against playing antiaircraft brace Ruben Dias and Nathan Ake against Newcastle successful the anticipation they whitethorn beryllium acceptable to look Real Madrid connected Wednesday.
He brought successful Abdukodir Khusanov and Vitor Reis successful January — meaning helium was capable to springiness his regulars the day off.
Asked if they could play successful the Bernabeu, Guardiola said: “I anticipation so.
“On Saturday they were not good, Ruben said, ‘I’m not acceptable to play 90 minutes, possibly 15-20’. Nathan was sick and had immoderate problems aft the crippled against Madrid truthful some were not acceptable to play.
“But having Vitor Reis connected the seat arsenic well, I wouldn’t hazard them.”
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