Pep Guardiola says that “he is not thinking of” failing to get to the Champions League knockout stage, as he prepares for a game that has to win against the Club Brugge.
The champions of 2023 had a poor first campaign in the form of a new appearance and went on Wednesday in the 25th place.
The teams from the ninth to the 24th go to a round of play-off to beat the Belgian side would mean an end to their European era.
Opta statistics Give the city 63.8% chance of qualifying – while Brugge is 93.9% likely to proceed.
Pep 💬 (in John Stones) played 35 minutes (against Chelsea) and played very well. We will see today how he feels. pic.twitter.com/z0v7ff2hed
– Manchester City (@mancity) January 28 2025
Guardiola said: “The situation we have, we must win the game and if not then we will not continue to competition and we want to go through another chance to play two more games and qualify for the next stage.
“It’s not a problem it’s an opportunity. A challenge and we’ll deal with it.
“For the club it would not be good not to qualify, but I don’t think about it now. I know for all stakeholders whether we will qualify or not, I think we will.”
The city was high expenditure on the January market, spending about £ 125 million on Omar Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov and Vitor Reis, but Guardiola says he does not know how much failure to move on to Europe would financially influence the club.
“I don’t know,” he said. “I didn’t talk to the chief executive about this.
“In the last two or three transport windows has always been positive. I am not naive enough not to know how important it is financially for the club to pass on this competition – it can affect the club, but of course we want to try to do it and to We go first for athletic reasons.
“In the last five or six years the net in this club has been amazing.
