Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola has come out to say that his team has a 1% chance of keeping their Champions League hopes alive by beating Real Madrid. This is coming ahead of Wednesday’s playoff round second-leg clash in Spain, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, his team has very minimal chance to go through on Wednesday at the Santiago Bernabéu, but as long as there is a 1% chance, his players will try.
Pep added that the result was not good at the Etihad, but his boys will give everything in Spain.
His words, “The margin to win in Bernabéu in that position [3-2 down], everybody knows that if you ask before the game, the percentage to go through, I don’t know, we arrive at 1%, or I don’t know what.
It will be minimal, but as much as you have a chance, we will try, that’s for sure, you know? The chance is minor because the result was not good — five minutes ago, with 2-1, it would be different.
But with 2-3, the chance is less, but as much as you have a chance, we are going to take it, and we’ll see what happens.”
On beating Newcastle, “Listen, there are many, many games that we didn’t play the level we play, and at the end, we lost it.
And that was not just the three points, it’s how it is affecting our minds for the next game. It happened a lot of times. This season, the reality is that we have been miles, miles away.”
WOW.
Pep Guardiola Sala is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who is currently managing Premier League club Manchester City. Guardiola is the only manager to win the continental treble twice, the youngest to win the UEFA Champions League, and he also holds the records for the most consecutive league games won in La Liga, the Bundesliga, and the Premier League. He is considered to be one of the greatest managers of all time.
Guardiola has played for and advocated on behalf of the Catalonia football team. Between 1995 and 2005, he played seven friendly games for Catalonia.
Under Guardiola’s predecessor Frank Rijkaard, Barcelona were known for a 4–3–3 with plenty of flair with Ronaldinho being the centre point of the attack. Under Guardiola, however, the team became more disciplined with a greater focus on possession and a disciplined and aggressive pressing style.
Guardiola was born to Dolors and Valentí. He has two older sisters and a younger brother, Pere, a football agent. He is an atheist. Guardiola met his wife Cristina Serra when he was 18. They married on 29 May 2014.
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