Pep Guardiola said his Manchester City players can «visualise» the treble after thrashing Real Madrid to reach the Champions League final.
City won 4-0 at the Etihad Stadium to win the tie 5-1 on aggregate and are now just three wins away from winning the Premier League title, FA Cup and Champions League in the same season.
Guardiola has repeatedly distanced himself from talk of a treble — achieved only once before in English football by Manchester United in 1999 — but after crushing Madrid, the City boss admitted his squad have started to think about the prospect of writing themselves into the history books. «Let me win the first two,» said Guardiola when asked about City's chance of winning the treble. «In the Premier League we are close.
We know we need one more game and I would say we play against our neighbours [Manchester United] and against an Italian team [Internazionale] in the finals.