Pep Guardiola, the manager of Manchester City, has made a decision after his team suffered a heavy 3-0 away defeat to Real Madrid in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League round of 16.
Pep Guardiola, manager of the "Sky Blues" Manchester City, has decided to try to lead his team to turn the situation around and advance after they suffered a heavy 0-3 defeat away to the "Los Blancos" Real Madrid in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League round of 16 last night, emphasizing that the team did not play poorly enough to lose by such a wide margin.
Pep said, “Our game was not bad enough to lose 0-3 like this. In the second match, we will try our best, but we know the chances are quite slim. It will be difficult to survive, but we will try with the fans behind us. We can do better than this.”
“I feel it wasn’t that bad. They had three chances in the first half and scored three goals. They always have good counterattacks, but we also broke through their defense several times, just missing the final touch. If we had scored, we would have felt better.”
“We have another week, and then we will face them at the Etihad Stadium. Now we need to recover both mentally and physically, then visit West Ham. When that day comes, the fans will be by our side. In football, no one knows what will happen. We will try and see what we can do to surprise them.”
Speaking about Federico Valverde, who scored three goals for Madrid: “He is an excellent player. He can play in many positions and has scored many beautiful goals.”
“Madrid deserved the victory. They have Gvardiol, Vinicius, Valverde, Tchouameni… They are a very talented team. They interrupted our counterattacks many times, but we played much better in the second half. We created many chances then but lacked the small details. If we had those, we would have scored.”