Travel Issues Will Affect My Players Amid Packed Fixture Schedule – Pep Guardiola

Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola has come out to say that he fears his team will be left exhausted because they cannot fly back home from Wednesday’s match against Newcastle. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, taking the bus instead of a plane during emergencies is not very ideal for him and his players, and this can affect his boys during subsequent matches.

Pep added that not resting well amid the packed fixture schedule is a recipe for disaster for all teams.

His words, “After the game we cannot come back by plane because of a problem – something for the planes. We don’t have a plane to travel back, so we have to take a bus. It’s two or three hours later that we will arrive here – so, so late, arriving on Thursday. The day after, Friday, we travel to Wolves, so that’s what you have to think about.”

“Then we go to Germany to play [RB] Leipzig in the Champions League next week. That’s a really important game for us, because we know what it means to be able to win there to qualify for the next stage.”

“I don’t know what happened [with the aeroplane]. The team manager told me. It happened with the previous one, I think in London. It’s not a problem with the bus, but we will arrive much, much later than we expected, but it is what it is.”