Pep Guardiola, the manager of Manchester City, has presented a list of the clubs that he believes have a chance of winning the Champions League this season. This comes after Real Madrid eliminated Manchester City from the competition.
Following the elimination of Manchester City from the Champions League by Real Madrid, Pep Guardiola has identified four teams that he believes have the potential to win the tournament.
Los Blancos defeated City by a score of 6-3 on aggregate, with Kylian Mbappe scoring a hat-trick as Madrid won the second leg of their play-off tie by a score of 3-1. According to Guardiola, the team led by Carlo Ancelotti is the reigning champions, having won the trophy for the fifteenth time in the previous season. Guardiola believes that his team is the favourite to win the trophy once more this year.
Arsenal was not included in the list of potential contenders, despite the fact that they finished third in the league phase. He also mentioned three other teams that could be contenders. Immediately following City’s departure, Guardiola stated, “Of course, Madrid is a contender, without a doubt.”
Nevertheless, there are other good teams in the area. The upcoming Champions League season is going to be very interesting. There is no doubt that Madrid is the favourite to win this trophy. Despite the fact that there are other teams that are having a very good season, Madrid is always the favourite to win.
On the other hand, there are other teams that are performing well recently. At this point in the season, Liverpool is having a really good season, Barcelona is incredible, and Paris Saint-Germain, which is led by my friend Luis [Enrique], is making progress. On the other hand, Madrid is undoubtedly the favourite.
It is the third time in the past four years that City has been defeated by Madrid in a knockout tie. Guardiola has suggested that this loss was the only one that was deserved. “The most talented group emerged victorious. He conceded that they were deserving of it.
“I had the impression that we were better than Madrid in the previous seasons, but this time around, we haven’t been as good as we were. This season, we haven’t been so good. When it comes to this competition, quality is always important. Madrid has demonstrated this season that they are capable of holding possession for extended periods of time; they were dynamic, they are quick when they run, and they pressed well.
The only thing you can do is accept it and move on with your life. Nothing can be everlasting. Although it was difficult to bring the 3-2 loss from the first leg to this location, we must now be able to learn from this experience and acknowledge that there are other, I don’t know… [This season] has thirty or forty games left to play.
“We have to try to win the FA Cup, we have to try to finish in the top four of the league, and we have to try to be back in this competition the following season,” the coach said. When it comes to the manner in which my team has performed in the Champions League over the course of the years, I have very little to criticise them for.
I had the impression that we were very close to winning when we were eliminated by Madrid in the past. The semi-finals and the finals were won by us. Tonight, when a team is more athletically capable than you are, you have no choice but to acknowledge their superiority and commend them.
Arsenal, on the other hand, will face either PSV or Feyenoord in the round of 16, following the elimination of AC Milan and Juventus, respectively, by the Dutch giants.
