Guardiola reveals why he didn’t make substitutions against Real

This Tuesday, the 9th, Real Madrid It is manchester city entered the field, in a match valid for the semifinal of the Champions League. The Merengues took the lead, but the Citizens sought a draw and left everything open for the second match. After the final whistle, Pep Guardiolacoach of the English team, spoke about the busy duel.

“They scored a goal when we were playing better and it was a fantastic goal. We managed to equalize the score at another point in the match. The tie will be decided in Manchester.”, assured the Spanish coach. In a nutshell, the commander spoke his observations on the very tough confrontation against Real Madrid.

Talking about going behind on the scoreboard, even playing better, Pep Guardiola said that this is something natural. “It’s football, that doesn’t exist. They are very similar games. Last year what happened happened, now we recovered and started in a different way for the second match”he stated.

Still in the mixed zone, the coach was asked about his overall impression of the result. Recalling the last meeting between the teams, Guardiola said it is an interesting score for the team. “I think we’ve now managed to take a good result from the tie to Manchester. Let’s see what we can do, how we can be more effective against them.”said the technician.

Finally, the Spaniard answered the reason for not having made any substitutions during the match. “Well, I thought we were fine. Bernardo Silva and Grealish are two players who continue the game, keep possession of the ball and we had to be careful with the counterattacks of Rodrygo and Vinicius Jr. (…) I also thought about making some changes, but I ended up not doing it”finished.

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