This week returns Champions League, already in its eliminatory format. The Manchester Cityrunner-up in the last edition, will travel to Portugal to face Sporting. Before starting the round of 16, Pep Guardiola spoke on the possibilities that his improve the result of the previous course. And also about his future in Manchester. “I’m not going to do like Sir Alex Ferguson, don’t worry”, joked on Tuesday in the sports city of City. “I still have a year and a half left on my contract, it’s a long time. There is a good atmosphere, and that always helps. Of the last 20 games we have won 18 and lost one, in Leipzig, where nothing was at stake”.
This tuning is what, according to his coach, can make the task easier for the Macunianos. “We know each other very well, and we accept the good and bad things of the rest. It’s six seasons now. There has always been a good atmosphere, otherwise we would not have won things. The most important thing is to have a good relationship. They are enemies every day, when they fight for a place in the team, but then they have to be like brothers on the weekend. Is not easy. There can be problems because everyone wants to play, but they respect each other a lot and respect the decisions”.
“I know sometimes it can bother you not to play, but you can’t complain about anything else. Everyone here wants to help them, physios, the rest of the coaching staff… in the end, winning or losing is something random. You don’t know what’s going to happen. To beat rivals we have to have big smiles, with bad faces it is impossible to improve. The rest does not matter. We train to predict what might happen, but nobody knows. We train to do the best we can. You can practice corner kicks and then concede a corner goal. The important thing is that we are here to do the best we can, and for now we have no regrets about it.”
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