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Pep Guardiola has warned his Manchester City team that they will have to put their fragile Champions League trends on them as they prepare to host Real Madrid at Etihad Stadium. (More football news)
Guardiola has swept the table in terms of national honors since joining City in 2016, with this season’s EFL Cup being the sixth major honor of his tenure.
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However, he may end his club’s wait for a first Champions League title, with Tottenham and Liverpool finishing the participation of his compatriots in the quarter-finals for more than two seasons.
City has a 2–1 lead over Madrid striker in the return match of their last 16 games on Friday, with a position on the last mini tour in Lisbon at stake.
But his 3-0 loss at Anfield in 2018, where all of Liverpool’s goals came here in the 19-minute area in the first half, serves as an uplifting narrative, as did the goals teams conceded against Monaco in 2017, and Tottenham. at the start. away points on those occasions.
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“Yes, definitely, ” said Guardiola at a press conference when asked if there is a problem. “More than fitting a goal, it’s the way we fit a goal.
“When they’re brilliant and they do a smart action, we’ll have to settle for it.
“But maxims were targets that we may have simply avoided. We’re going to have to avoid it, making mistakes at this festival punishes you a lot.
“We know that. We’ve talked about it several times, this week and in recent years, several times. If we have to step forward as a team to be about to win this competition, we have to be older in that. “
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If City advances, Guardiola will be the first coach to beat Zinedine Zidane in a playoff after Madrid’s coach starred in a three-match winning streak in the Champions League from 2015-16 to 2017-18.
“When you think you’ve covered one of his tactical plans, he’s going through to hit you with some other tactical plan or go back to the original you think happened in the first place,” he observed.
“In the dark and remote past, we played the first leg and what we could from the first leg, we used it smartly.
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“We talked about this match and since then we have seen each and every match in Madrid since the resumption of La Liga.
“We talked about how we think Madrid can just manipulate this game. But what they have done the most in the last two weeks is what we can do, how we can damage Madrid and the spaces where we can cause problems for them. “
Guardiola’s arrangements for the adjustment were interrupted in part by news that teenage central defender Eric Garcia turned down a new contract at City.
García has established he has established he hem as the first-choice spouse of Aymeric Laporte in recent weeks, however, he has been strongly connected with the return to his club of years of training, Barcelona.
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At the other end of the field, Sergio Aguero remains marginalized after undergoing meniscus surgery, but Guardiola rules out the return of City’s most sensible goalscorer for the final phase if they negotiate with Madrid.
“At the moment, I don’t know. ” He is still in Barcelona [where Agüero was operated on]. It is getting better. I spoke with the doctors and everything is as we thought it would be.
“I hope you can come back and start your education with us, but I don’t know. “
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