MADRID, 3 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola stressed on Wednesday that Sevilla’s big problem “is that it has won a lot”, so “the bar is very high”, although he acknowledged that “hopefully” Manchester City “could have their trophies in Europe.
“The problem with Sevilla is that they have won a lot. They have done such extraordinary things in the last decade that the bar is very high. People think that Sevilla now has to win the leagues, the Champions League and everything. They have had many injured , people who have arrived late and in poor shape and you need time”, he said after the victory (3-1) of his team over the Spanish team.
“The team needs two or three good results, the World Cup is going to go very well for them to stop. But I wish Manchester City could have their trophies in Europe,” the Spanish coach told Movistar Plus after the game.
In addition, Guardiola did not want to consider as “failure” the bad moment that the Spanish teams are experiencing in Europe and trusted that next year “they will come back stronger.” “The Champions League is a very difficult competition, it’s very special, very hard, each game has to be very serious and respect everyone a lot. But in the last 25-30 years the teams that have dominated in Europe have been the Spanish: Barcelona , Real Madrid, Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla… They have always been there, it’s football and those things happen, they are not failures, next year they will come back stronger”, settled.