Guardiola: We won’t give up on semis
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola insisted his side would not give up hope of reaching the Champions League semi-finals.
After last night’s shock 3-0 defeat at Liverpool, the exBarcelona boss said: “In this room I think there is nobody convinced we can go through.
“Tomorrow we are going to convince ourselves. There are 90 minutes more, we are going to try.”
City failed to manage a shot on target at Anfield, but Guardiola did not think the overall performance was bad.
He said: “We arrived with a huge personality, except for 1015 minutes in the first half when we lost a bit of control.
“The problem is they arrived two times, the first one offside, to score two and then here at Anfield it is always complicated.”
The sour note from an otherwise spellbinding evening was an attack on the City bus as it arrived at the stadium. The coach was pelted with missiles – including fireworks, bottles and cans – by Liverpool supporters who had lined the streets in their thousands to welcome their side. Windows were smashed and City needed to order another bus to take them from the stadium.
Guardiola said: “I didn’t expect that. I am new here.
“Normally when the police know that is going to happen, they try to avoid it happening.
“The bus is destroyed. I didn’t expect that a club as prestigious as Liverpool would do these kind of things.
“Of course, it is not Liverpool, it is the people. It was not only one, only two, only three.
“Hopefully it doesn’t happen again.”