Pep Guardiola says Manchester City has a “1 percent chance” to overthrow her 3-2 deficit against Real Madrid and reach the last 16 of the Champions League.
The city led 2-1 in the Etihad Stadium last week, but the gates of Brahim Diaz and Jew Bellingham repelled the European champions to claim an advantage on Wednesday evening in the second stage of their playoff of the KO-phase in Santiago Bernabéu.
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Even the best version of Guardiola’s city would try to get through, no matter on the 2024-25 page, which is underwhelmed for a large part of the season.
Guardiola said: “The lead to win in Bernabéu in this position (3-2 below), everyone knows that if you ask before the game, the percentage we can go through I don’t know what.
“It will be minimal, but as much as you have a chance, we will try, that’s sure, do you know? The chance is low because the result was not good-it would be different five minutes ago with 2-1.
“But with 2-3 the chance is less, but as much as they have, we will take it and we will see what happens.”
We were miles away – Pep
City will at least travel to Spain on the back of a moral victory after he had 4-0 with 4-0 hopefuls on Saturday with 4-0 on Saturday.
But Guardiola accepts that it was a bad season after her high standards.
“There are many, many games that we have not played on the level that we play, and in the end we lost it,” said Guardiola.
“And these were not only the three points, but also how it affects our spirit for the next game.
“It often happened. This season was the reality that we were miles away. “
