Pep Guardiola The coach of Manchester City, started playing on Sunday the crucial match in the Champions League that he will face on Wednesday against his friend PSG Luis Enrique on the penultimate day of the league stage.
Just after the Premier League match in which City defeated Ipswich by a decisive 0-6 at Portman Road, Guardiola made the first assessment of the exciting pulse of the Parc des Princes and did not miss the following detail.
“They played yesterday, we played today. We have to make a long trip,” said Pep, referring to the fact that, while PSG played on Saturday won their match in Ligue 1 at Lens (1-2), The city did so on Sunday, Therefore, the French champion will have another day to prepare for the great game in Europe and, in addition, will not have to travel to play at home.
“Now we will prepare for this final in Paris,” Guardiola continued. “In fact, we have two finals (the last two games of the Champions League phase). If we win both, we qualify. If we win one we have a good chance, but we still have to score points because we got ourselves. in this mess.”
This is the situation
After visiting PSG this Wednesday, City host Club Brugge on Wednesday next week in the final matchday, what to do with a unified schedule of 18 games, 9:00 pm
The city occupies 22nd place in the table, with 8 points, while PSG, 25th with 7 points, It will be the first team not to make the cut to compete in the playoffs before the round of 16 and will be automatically eliminated.
City started the league stage by drawing at home against Inter (0-0) and in their last three games they have added only one point: defeat against Sporting with Viktor Gyökeres’ hat trick (4-1), drew against Feyenoor at the Etihad after leading 3-0 with a quarter of an hour remaining and a new debacle against Juventus (2-0).
“But at that time we had a lot of problems, we couldn’t play at our level,” Guardiola recalled. “I hope it continues like this in Paris,” he wished, buoyed by the morale boost brought about by that 0-6 against Ipswich where City regained the best of feelings after a deep crisis of results.
Source: La Verdad
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