“This competition is a coin in the air”
MADRID, 11 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Manchester City coach, Pep Guardiola, was relieved after winning the Champions League this Saturday with a 1-0 defeat against Inter Milan in Istanbul, a historic title for the English club in a competition that “is a coin to the air”, while humorously saying that they are going “for” the 14 of Real Madrid.
“It’s been so long since the others that I no longer remember what I felt. Doing it with Barça, Barça is Barça for me, but it’s also true that here they have treated me like a son, and this cup has felt like the five leagues “He said in statements to Movistar Plus, collected by Europa Press.
“It seemed that without this it didn’t make sense and the other thing also makes sense. This competition is a coin in the air. They could have tied us at the end, gone to extra time. Foden could have scored the second goal. It was the game I expected more or less. The first half has cost us reading the free man in the midfield”, he added.
On the other hand, Guardiola was asked about a Rodri author of the title goal. “I learned that in the Champions League finals I don’t fight. They are the ones who suffer. Nobody wants to win more than the players. I only told him at halftime ‘relax, you’ve been the best midfielder in Europe by far, don’t speed up, read where the free man is. The goal helped”, he affirmed.
“Stones has had an extraordinary year. Bernardo Silva, what a player. We’ve been, not at our level, but I understand it because of the difficulty of the Champions League. We’ve never done it and the players feel it and it’s normal. Probably next year If we are well and we go far, we will be a bit more relaxed,” he added.
In addition, the Catalan coach pointed out, between laughs, that they can now go after Real Madrid. “It gives the feeling that it’s done, the job is done, we don’t have anything left to win, but after a vacation we’ll be back. Madrid shouldn’t get too confident, we’re only 13 of them away. We’re going for them,” he finished.