"Walker is out for tomorrow, which is a shame because he would have been ideal to control Vinicius and I would have really liked to have him. But he won't be there and I can't do anything about it, we've had many injuries and I have to find the right solutions and try to do a good result". On the eve of the new Champions League match with Real Madrid, which this time is for the quarter-finals, Pep Guardiola regrets the absence of his defender whose presence would have been, according to the Manchester City coach, fundamental.
"Last season we came through, in the first season we went out by a hair's breadth - says Guardiola -, the coaches are the same, instead there are new players. We'll see, however it could be an advantage to play the second leg at home.
But first there will be these 90 minutes in Madrid, in which they will be very dangerous. But we have an immense emotional level, we know what it means to play in this stadium." "And we also know what awaits us - adds the City manager -, and we know the effectiveness of their transitions with Vinicius, Bellingham and Valverde. But we didn't come here to control the match but to try to punish them and score goals. Real Madrid knows how to control the 'assets' of the match, it's up to us to find the countermeasures."
Then a joke about the 4-0 that City beat Madrid last year at home, closing the issue of qualifying for the final: "It wasn't so much Real Madrid that did badly while we did very well. But I don't think that it's possible to beat Real like that again. To do it two years in a row is very difficult."
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