“We have to impose our game and forget the first leg”

2023-04-18 20:47:42

The coach of the Manchester City, Pep Guardiola, said that his team should try to impose their game this Wednesday against the Bayern Munich without thinking about the advantage they achieved in the first leg (3-0).

“We are focused on what we have to do. Not only on controlling the game, but on liquidating it. We come to play a game, one team against another. We will try to do things better than the rival in this specific game and not thinking about the result of the first leg or the results of other years”, said the Catalan coach on Tuesday, who after the first leg, after so much intensity, said he had ended up “emotionally destroyed”.

“We will try to impose our game, but Bayern will also do it,” he added. Guardiola highlighted the quality that Bayern has and that he knows the Bavarian club well enough, where he spent three seasons, to know that he believes in the possibility of turning the tie around.

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“I know this team, I know what Sabener Strasse is, I know they believe they can do it. They have a history in this competition, they have grown up with it,” he added.

The details

Guardiola pointed out that a match of this level is decided by many details and recalled that in the first leg, despite the clear final score, there was a moment, with the 0-0 duel, in which everything could change.

“If Ruben (Dias) doesn’t block (Jamal) Musiala’s shot, Bayern would have the advantage and we would have had another game. Many times everything depends on a moment like this,” Guardiola stressed, and insisted that his team has to think about his game, his own weapons and in imposing them.

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“You have to impose your game. The rival has many weapons. You have to impose yours”, he assured.

Guardiola also recalled his time in Munich: “I had an incredible time here, my family too. I have a lot of friends. The club is fantastic. But now I’m here to do my job and we hope to win.”