Guardiola: I am not naive, and I expect a difficult match tomorrow

Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola at a press conference, to talk about a confrontation with tomorrow against Klopp Bruges, at the end of the first round of the Champions League.

The coach said: "In the situation in which we are, we must win the match and if that does not happen, we will not continue to compete and want to qualify for another opportunity to play two other games and qualify for the next stage, it is not a problem but an opportunity and challenge and we will face it."

He added: "What does Manchester City not qualify? For the club, it will not be good, but I am not thinking about that now. I know that all the people concerned, whether we will qualify or not, I think that we will do that."

He added: "Support the masses? If we do well and we were in a good rhythm, they will be there. We felt more than ever this season, as happened in Chelsea at the end of the week, they helped us, we will need them because they are Club Bruges did not lose one match In 20 games, they are fixed, crucified and aggressive and do not receive opportunities. "

He stressed: "We played against them years ago and they made a step forward in their aggression and play very well with the ball. We have to lead very well to win the match."

He added: "Thank you for your concern for us if we go out. But you can worry me after the match and I will answer you, we did not restore its best levels, because only a few games left."

"How will the team be affected financially in the event of not qualifying? I do not know. I did not talk to the CEO about that. In the last period of transfer or three things, things were always positive, I am not naive enough to not know how important the club is financially successful in this tournament - lost This affects the club, but of course we want to try to achieve this and qualify first for sports reasons. "

He stressed: "In the past five or six years, the net spending in this club was amazing. The club said well, the situation is the situation if we want to spend, we can spend, otherwise we will not spend."

He noted: "Tomorrow, we would like to score a lot of goals in the first 20 minutes, but I do not think this will happen. The approach today is to read and understand the match and tomorrow we know that we must provide something special to win the Champions League matches, the matter is simple, if we do not win, we will go out, then We won, we will qualify. "

He noted: "I have participated in the Champions League several times in my career as a coach. Sooner or later, you have to play such matches - win means qualification, loss means going out. This happens more in the following stages, not now but here we are here for the reasons that we know. We are good enough and I have participated in many matches like this in my career. "

However, I expect a difficult match. When a team is not defeated in 20 games, this is good, there is no secret to that. I watched some matches, when they played against Aston Villa and Juventus and against Milan they played well. They really performed well. The different differences in Building the attack and individual control - it makes it uncomfortable, of course in each team, including Manchester City, there are weaknesses and you have to discover and punish them. "

And he continued: "I know how much the players are focused, and I do not doubt that we will do well until we qualify, but this is football and no one knows what will happen, I am thinking about the play plan. How will Klopp Bruges behave. I do not want to raise feelings today, we will see what I will say to the eyes We'll see what comes to mind. Sometimes I speak and sometimes I do.

He concluded: "Of course we tried to replace Rodri with defending midfielders, they are not suitable players in the defending midfield, but they presented well, but we will see in the future what we have to do."