Pep Guardiola
Pep Guardiola believes that Bayern Munich will be more dangerous opponents for Manchester City for the bizarre problems they have run into over the last week. Guardiola knows Bayern very well having managed there for three years, and also knows what makes a winning dressing room. The City boss expects the German club to all pull together and use that energy against the Blues when they meet on Wednesday.
Pep Guardiola said: “Sometimes you need conflict to make the team more together, I am pretty sure of that. It’s not a weak point, it will be a strong point [for them] against us. I know this club perfectly, I can imagine the situation against City, we play there, the players will do their best. Bayern will do their best on Wednesday but I am pretty sure what happened here. If it was the opposite and we had lost 3-0 and didn’t win today and there was some conflict, the team would say it is a final for us and we know exactly what we have to do and we will do it.”
Kevin De Bruyne did not react well when he was taken off in the first-leg victory, although that level of drama pales in comparison to what Bayern have gone through. City’s Belgian did not think much of that either though and suggested disagreements are more common than people think.
Pep Guardiola said: “I don’t care. It happens so much – people you work with every day there are arguments. It happens. You don’t want people to fight or have a punch but I don’t think it has anything to do with us. It is between them. It is football and it happens all the time a tackle or whatever. I have seen it passing by in the years that I have played football and it’s fine”
