The City manager complains that he has to play against Everton on Sunday instead of Saturday.
Jose Guardiola has been since he left FC Barcelona on the hunt for the Holy Grail of the Champions League. In his sixth season with the Manchester City, the Spanish coach is again close to reaching the goal. He has a penultimate hurdle ahead of him, the RealMadridagainst whom he has to play the second leg of the semi-final next Wednesday, May 17 at the the etihad stadium. But first he has a key game in his fight for the Premier this Sunday against the Everton at 3 p.m. And that did not please Guardiola, who complained in the press conference prior to this meeting that he had one day less than Real Madrid to prepare for the match. “I don’t understand it, but I have to accept it,” he said.
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Guardiola has responded to this question after referring to that short time to prepare for the match. Asked if he was thinking about the game against Real Madrid instead of Sunday’s against Everton, in which they can’t fail if they want to take the title, the City coach said. “I don’t want any distractions with Madrid. We won’t have much time because we play on Sunday,” explained the Sant Pedor man, ironically a “Thank you so much”.
Instead, Real Madrid will play their game against this Saturday Getafe. It will be a clash in which the whites will present an elf full of novelties once they run out of chances to fight for the League.
“I’m not going to fight anymore. The schedule is what it is,” said Guardiola, who showed up “I’m sure the Premier wants to help the teams. The problem is the calendar, the number of games there are. I think we cannot play on Saturday because there is Eurovision and there are not enough security forces”.
“There are many leagues, there are many games on all calendars. That’s the problem, I don’t think the problem is with LaLiga or the Premier League. In Germany or France they play on Fridays and we have to play as they tell us, that’s not going to change”.
“Tomorrow we will see the team, we will speak to the physios and coaching staff and we will decide. We still have a lot of games to play,” Guardiola explained.
Manchester City drew 1-1 in the first leg at the Santiago Bernabéu and are exacting revenge after last year’s elimination in the same round of the tournament by a Real Madrid side who threw off the epic. On this occasion, despite an underwhelming start from Manchester City with the ball, Madrid recovered and deserved victory.
Now the swords are in full swing for the second leg and Guardiola is already playing it his own way.
Source: Goal