Manchester Metropolis have superior to the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the seventh consecutive season. Nonetheless, Pep Guardiola, the supervisor of Manchester Metropolis, expressed his frustration with the Premier League’s match scheduling throughout Champions League weeks.
Guardiola had beforehand voiced his frustration when Metropolis needed to face Manchester United on Sunday, solely three days earlier than their last-16 second leg in opposition to Copenhagen in Europe.
He famous that no different nation requires its groups to play on a Sunday after they have European matches on Wednesday.
Regardless of Metropolis comfortably defeating the Danish facet 3-1, securing a 6-2 mixture scoreline, Guardiola endured in expressing discontent concerning the scheduling post-match.
“Speak to the Premier League? They’d say ‘We pay some huge cash, shut up!’”
Guardiola applied seven modifications to his lineup in opposition to Copenhagen after the 3-1 victory over United within the Manchester derby, forward of a pivotal Premier League title conflict in opposition to Liverpool on Sunday. Regardless of this, he refuted strategies that he was resting gamers for the Anfield journey, emphasising his severe method to the second leg in opposition to Copenhagen.
“I knew how drained my gamers have been. In some nations whenever you play on Wednesday they permit you to play on Saturday. I wanted recent legs, individuals who can maintain a match like this.”
Metropolis will uncover their upcoming opponents within the Champions League quarter-final draw scheduled for March fifteenth. Alongside Metropolis, Bayern Munich, Actual Madrid, and Paris Saint-Germain have additionally secured qualification for the subsequent spherical, whereas the remaining 4 ties are set to be performed subsequent week.
For now, Guardiola and the Residents have a small matter of negotiating their well past league-leaders Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday afternoon.
