GUARDIOLA: DON’T QUAFF I WANT THE QUAD
Man City 1 Brighton 0
PEP GUARDIOLA revealed there was ‘not one drop’ of celebration from his FA Cup finalists with the Quadruple still on.
Gabriel Jesus headed Manchester City into next month’s Wembley showpiece.
But with the Carabao Cup winners’ Champions League quarter-final at Spurs tomorrow, Guardiola wants his title chasers to stay booze-free. He said: “It’s
FROM BACK PAGE really good but we don’t have too much time to tell ourselves, ‘Oh, it’s so good. How nice is everything.’
“The only focus right now is: ’Don’t drink one drop of beer or alcohol. Rest, eat good, and prepare the game against one of the best teams in the Premier League and Europe... when they had six days to prepare and we had two-and-a-half.’
“Yeah, we won 22 of the last 23 so it’s not bad.
“Of course, if we want to be in contention in all competitions you have to make these kind of numbers.
“It’s the same with Liverpool in the Premier League.”
City now play twice a week for the rest of April.
Guardiola was forced to replace Kyle Walker – fortunate not to be sent off after clashing with Brighton’s Ali Jahanbaksh (above) - at half-time.
But the City boss maintained big clubs can cope with the problems piling up for him as the business end of the season approaches.
“The big clubs are what count in these situations: not complaining,” said the Spaniard.
“The big clubs don’t go saying, ‘No, we lose for that reason’ or ‘We didn’t play because..’
“We are going to try and do it again on Tuesday.”