The holders were eliminated in a shootout and will rue not making more of their almost total dominance in the 120 minutes which preceded it
Pep Guardiola: With our people, we feel safe, we feel protected, we feel supported,” said the Manchester City manager in his pre-match press conference. “We know we can handle momentum. We are going for it. We have a gameplan we believe in, and we are going for it. If we lose, we lose. We shake hands – Real Madrid will deserve it. I want us to play and deserve to be in the semi-finals.
“You have to adjust something from Bernabeu - the result was good, but we have to perform a little better. We have the last training session, and we will talk about that and hopefully go through. We need to feel the pressure - we don’t want to lose the game. We need hunger to compete. It is true we feel more comfortable because we have won [this competition now]. Our people at home will help us a lot. You can’t for 90 minutes, all the time, be better, you have to suffer.”
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