GUARDIOLA: OUR FANS DON’T PUSH US IN EUROPE... WE DON’T FEEL SPECIAL

Shakhtar Donetsk v Man City Champions League Group F, KO 8pm

PEP GUARDIOLA claims Manchester City are not “special” enough to win the Champions League because the fans are not “pushing” them.

Guardiola whose side face Shakhtar Donetsk tonight, said: “To win this competition, it’s not enough just to have desire, or wanting to

win. You have to have many circumstances. You have to have experience and still we don’t have enough in some moments.

“It’s not enough that the manager wants to win it. It’s not just the players.

“You have to have the desire, the club, chairman, owner, the fans, everyone has to push to be closer, to achieve the next stage.

“When it happens, everyone will feel it.

“It’s one important thing to win this kind of title, but you have to be pushed, not just by the manager, by everyone surrounding Manchester City we have to win it – and still we don’t have that feeling.

“The feeling that the fans are pushing, that we have to win the Champions League. Normally what happens is you get closer, that’s why I feel we are a really good team, it’s a pleasure to work with them.

“But in this competition you need something special – and still I don’t feel it.”

Guardiola has not won the Champions League since

2011 when he was Barcelona boss and City need a win to boost their chances of reaching the knockout stages.

He added:

“Every year we’ll be closer and sooner or later it’s going to happen.”

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