Pep Guardiola: There is no one at Manchester City who thinks we can't come back against Liverpool
City head into Tuesday night's second leg three goals behind knowing that only 11 sides have ever come back from such a deficit in Europe's premier club competition
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Your support makes all the difference.Pep Guardiola says his Manchester City team all fully believe they can come from behind and beat Liverpool and make it into the Champions League last four.
City head into Tuesday night's second leg three goals behind knowing that only 11 sides have ever come back from such a deficit in Europe's premier club competition.
But Guardiola insists his team head to the Etihad full of confidence despite knowing the size of the task at hand.
"We saw at the Masters sometimes you can make a bogey, sometimes a birdie. If you think about the bogey you make another one," he told BT Sport. "It's better to think about what you have to do, to analyse Liverpool, enjoy the game, attack because we need to score goals. We'll try to score the first one and afterwards we will see.
"One thing I'm completely sure we have is character. We cannot do what we have done without character. In the league with these weather conditions, the amount of games, every three days. We don't solve the problem just because we are Manchester City. I assure you there is no one there in this team who doesn't think we can do it because we have done it many times.
"We have scored a lot of goals, but the most important thing is the amount of chances we create. Last game we scored two but I don't know how many chances we create. Manchester City are the only team to be in the Champions League every year for the last six or seven years. That sometimes is more important than achieving one semi-final and then go out.
"It's important to be there regularly. If we do it maybe we will improve, I will improve and we will achieve the next step."
Speaking earlier this week Guardiola was all too aware that his "extraordinary team" must be "perfect" to do so, however.
"Of course to go through, you have to make the perfect game," he added. "Create chances, be clinical, concede few chances - all the conditions have to be perfect. The result is tough, but we have 90 minutes and in football, everything can happen. What we are going to do is try.
"We don't need to talk about motivation," he added. "The way they play in every game shows what they want to do. My team is extraordinary, not comparable to many others.
"I will be close to them no matter what happens between now and the end of the season. It's a joy to be manager of them."
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