Ahead of the return leg between Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund, Pep Guardiola revealed the reason he trusts his players.
Pep Guardiola blindly trusts his Manchester City players to defeat Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday. He is convinced that his side has what it takes to win the series and get through to the semifinal. Not trusting his players at this point would be a serious mistake from Pep, who is currently going through one of the best seasons since he arrived at the club.
As of today, the Citizens have a chance to win four titles but the Champions League is the one that counts the most. Although they already have a small advantage against Dortmund, Guardiola knows beating them at Signal Iduna Park will be quite difficult. Especially with Erling Haaland as a constant threat on the attack against them. But Pep trusts that the previous experience getting eliminated from the tournament will take them far this time.
Guardiola wants to end the curse.
“After 27 wins in 29 games, if I don’t trust them, we have a big problem,” said Guardiola via The Mirror. “I’d be crazy. We can win or lose. If we lose, you can kill me, you first. What we’ve done so far, we deserve to be in this position. We know if we win, we go through. In the Premier League we need three wins and one draw, as we expect Manchester United to win their last seven games. What we’ve done has given us this opportunity. If we go out, we’ll be disappointed, but there’s another opportunity.
“We lost against Lyon. We were better, but we went out. We are going to be in the Champions League for the 11th season in a row next season, so we’ll be there again and that’s fantastic. But now is the time to make another step which everyone wants. The players were sad last season and now we have the other opportunity. We have to win, we have to do it, nobody will say ‘just go to the semi finals’. We have to do it. We’ll see, but I’m so excited and happy to travel to Germany to try to do it and see what happens.”
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