Guardiola: “We only had one Champions League, we didn’t do anything special”

He Manchester City andis the rival to beat in this new edition of the Champions League after being crowned last season for the first time in its history.

Aware that euphoria can cause you to lose your way, the Catalan coach wants to bring down his entire squad in the press conference before the debut against Red Star, a match where they are clearly starting as favourites.

“I would like to say that for our club to win the Champions League is incredible but, in perspective, how many teams have won it once? We didn’t do anything special. Just one. We don’t have it and we are proud.”Guardiola explained in a press conference.

Furthermore, to illustrate his point, he made a simile of his time at Barça, where “I won two in four years, but we didn’t do it back to back,” and gave -he emphasized that to be successful again “we have to be ourselves.” and, if we can’t, qualify for the next year and try again. “It’s the hardest thing to win the first one. It’s something incredible for us, but only once. We’ll try to win tomorrow.”

Despite the game, Pep Guardiola He joked with Ferran Soriano’s words that they were calm after winning the Champions League last season. “If the board is relaxed, that’s good.”

The Catalan coach is confident and surprised by his level City of Manchester and their competitiveness at the beginning of the championship. Against West Ham at half-time the team was losing and “the players were angry. I said to them, ‘why you? We are losing but you are playing so well.’ “If we had been more clinical in attack, we would have been 3-1. We force them, but that’s their mentality. It’s incredible. I’m a little surprised that after all the years, the treble shows that this is a great team. You can give inspiring speeches, but it doesn’t work. Every player has to do it themselves,” he insisted. .