Pep Guardiola said after the qualification of his team: “I would like to have a thought for the players who have not played, the staff and the people of Abu Dhabi, who have helped us to take the club to the next level, so much players who have played for City in the past, it is thanks to them that we are where we are today. We are leaving a team that eliminated Barca and Bayern. We suffered a lot. We played better in the second half and it’s a very big victory for us. The supporters ? It was weird to play a match like that without an audience… It’s an achievement, but our fans should have been there. The club belongs to the people. We are passing. The supporters remain. They must be very proud. We really appreciated their presence tonight, even if they weren’t in the stands… We believed in it for three seconds against Tottenham in 2019, and we’re very happy now. We asked that the hail be cleared at half time. Fernandinho? Unbelievable… We changed the eleven a bit to better support the defense. It’s his birthday too. Which gift ! He was an extraordinary captain, he played very well. (The title of champion of England on Saturday?) This final validates the work of these last four years. Getting to the final is so hard… You have to be calm, know how to suffer, there are bad times. It’s a fantastic season and we deserve our place in the final. The Parisians are very competitive, they don’t give up and they are used to winning. We stayed calm. It is the details, possibly the red cards, which decide the matches… Possession? They got the ball, we got it in the second half. We changed things in the second half, we did better. It’s always a risk, their backs played very high, we had to adapt. Riyad Mahrez? He is a great talent, he is always present in the big matches. He’s a fantastic player. The players are judged on the big matches and he loves it… The first goal was magnificent, a strike from the right. The second is very beautiful too. He scores three of four goals in the two matches, congratulations to him. “
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