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If we’re not able to do that, it means we’re not good enough and we’ll prepare much better for next season. We have five finals to qualify, so in the Champions League we don’t have time to lose a lot of games. “It’s a top-level competition and every team is so good, which is why it is so complicated. Apart from Real Madrid, nobody else has won the Champions League in the past three years, so it’s tough.”

City skipper Vincent Kompany admitted winning the Champions League is the final challenge for the club.

“I’d love to win it with City, but it’s a tough competition to win,” he said. “It’s OK to say we