Pep Guardiola, before the European dream of Manchester City

After the tumble that Liverpool has given him this year in the Premier, Manchester City, and Pep Guardiola, few things could put more batteries than to eliminate Real Madrid with authority in the Champions League and see how the European sanction that would have compromised the future of the club was revoked. Launched again like a rocket towards the European dream with which the Sheikh arrived at the Etihad, winning the Champions would be the perfect way to shake off the bittersweet feeling of this strange season. In front, a Lyon that is much more than it seems, and that promises to make things very complicated for the English after the elimination of Cristiano's Juventus.

To redeem himself for a bad year in the league –at least in the exalted Pep scale–, The Catalan will have to eat the dangerous French candy before facing his own past (follow the game live on As.com). Guardiola would be wrong, in any case, to keep an eye on the semifinals as Atlético did, and, in fact, he himself wanted to be cautious after eliminating Real Madrid in the round of 16: “It is only a step, if we think it is enough we will show how small we are. “

The Gauls, in any case, have stayed out of Europe for next season by finishing seventh in France and went through the goalaverage phase after losing to Juventus in the second leg. The great stoppage of Ligue 1 could weigh on their legs, but a Champions quarter always load the players with extra energy, so the citizens, led by Kevin De Bruyne and Sterling although surely without Sergio Agüero, they cannot lose concentration if they want this to be their year at last.