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Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola says his group, who face Real Madrid in their Champions League elimination round, first-leg on Tuesday, need to set to the side the different European families of the two clubs and draw on their aggregate strength.
Real have won Europe's top prize a record multiple times while City stay looking for their most memorable Champions League title in the wake of losing in the last to Chelsea last year.
"Assuming we need to contend with their set of experiences, we don't get an opportunity. It justifies itself," said the previous Barcelona coach, when helped to remember the differentiating records of the two clubs.
"We really want to go up against them. For us playing against them is a staggering test and we need to attempt it. (We will) Suffer when we endure, (yet) remain together. Attempt to do as best as could be expected."
Guardiola additionally talked down the meaning of the job of himself and Carlo Ancelotti in the game, expressing that in the Champions League, games are dominated by the decision-production of players on the field.
"History is there, we can't transform it, yet it's eleven against eleven and one ball moving. The players conclude their direction," he said.
"You can envision an arrangement yet it's eleven v eleven, the nature of the (players), how solid they are, it will have an effect. This game is players, it will not be Carlo or myself who win it."
There is some set of experiences that is in support of City, nonetheless - - two quite a while back Guardiola's side took the ongoing La Liga pioneers out of the opposition in the last 16 phase subsequent to winning the two legs 2-1.
City might need to take on Real without their best option right back Kyle Walker and focal protector John Stones, who are both dubious with wounds.
Walker has been battling with a lower leg injury got against Atletico Madrid in the past round and Stones is engaging with a hamstring strain he acquired in the midweek prevail upon Brighton and Hove Albion.
"They are questions, Kyle didn't prepare over the most recent 10 days, John since Brighton. That is the reason, I couldn't say whether they will prepare. We perceive how they feel, (and) tomorrow take a choice," said Guardiola.
Liverpool face Villarreal in the other semi-last, at Anfield, on Wednesday.
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