Bernardo Silva: qualification is possible, and there is no ideal team

Bernardo Silva: qualification is possible, and there is no ideal team

Tuesday 18-02-2025
Manchester City City Bernardo Silva appeared at a press conference, to talk about tomorrow's confrontation against Real Madrid, in the second leg of the Champions League, at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

He started his talk about his memories against Real Madrid: “It is a mixture of feelings; we have brought them out of the Champions League twice, and they took us twice. So this is the fifth time that we face each other. that".

He added: "I am sure that it will be a very good match tomorrow, and we look forward to that.

He stressed: "When it is a successful team like Manchester City in the last seven or eight seasons, you lose some matches, you are unusual for that. We have a bad season and a few bad months, and we do not accept that! A dark tunnel, especially on a personal level, as we were in November ... "

He noted: "We will not win the most important competition in the season, which is the English Premier League, knowing that we are now in a worse position than we were when the Champions League match started, because we were playing on our land and lost, it is always a great incentive for us. However, we believe it is It is possible .. ".

He continued: "When the season started, I would not believe you if you told me that we would be in this place in the Premier League, we will play against Real Madrid in the players and not in the final rounds - the quarter -finals and the semi -finals ... We put ourselves in this position, Therefore, we deserve to be in this complex position of having to face a difficult team in the separation matches because we finished the season in the twenty -second place in The championship.

"I always believe that it is possible, and I always believe regardless These situations. "

Regarding his waste of a penalty against Real Madrid and whether he will pay a penalty in the event of a penalty shootout tomorrow: "You cannot waste a penalty unless you go and pay it, and I paid it in the middle [last season], and the goalkeeper was waiting, it is frustrated But this is the case, and I do not feel any regret ... "

He added: "Mbappe is a great player, a very special player, one of the most distinguished players in the world now, but Real Madrid has many different weapons, and many ways to harm you, and you cannot focus on one player when you have Rodrigo, Vinicius, Pelingham, Mbappe. You can only think about one player, we must think about them all. "

And between: "There is no perfect team, not even Real Madrid, or Manchester City, there are always ways to find weaknesses in any team, and there are some things that they do not do well. I think we have things that we do better than Real Madrid, and I think that Real Madrid is doing things better than us.

He concluded: When you score an important goal in a competition like this, in a stadium like this, against Real Madrid, it is always very beautiful. Your dreams when you are a child come true. "
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