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Manchester City progressed to the Champions League semi-finals on Wednesday with an ill-tempered goalless draw against Atletico Madrid, setting up a last-four tie against 13-time European champions Real Madrid.
Pep Guardiola said his team is in “big trouble” after injuries made Kyle Walker and Kevin De Bruyne major doubts for Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final. The pair limped off with what appeared to be ankle injuries in the bad-tempered goalless draw with Atletico Madrid, which saw the Blues book their place in the Champions League semi-finals last night.
Kevin De Bruyne and Kyle Walker both limped off in City’s hard-fought draw at the Wanda Metropolitano on Wednesday. Fernandinho and Nathan Ake replaced the duo, as Pep Guardiola’s side just about coped with the hosts’ pressure to progress to the Champions League semi-final.
It has been a physically and emotionally draining week for Manchester City. Pep Guardiola says City are “in big trouble” due to injuries picked up in their triumphant draw at the Wanda Metropolitano after Kevin De Bruyne and Kyle Walker were forced off. Phil Foden spent most of the game sporting a bandaged head after a needlessly robust challenge from Felipe. Although some rejigging will be required for the second meeting with Liverpool in a week, the real challenge for Guardiola will be to refresh the team mentally for another season-defining match. The level of focus required at the Etihad on Sunday and in Spain on Wednesday will have been incredibly challenging for the players, many of whom played in both. An FA Cup semi-final is the kind of contest to sharpen the mind, although there will be no rest after. City face two games a week until mid-May so need to manage their bodies and minds carefully for the foreseeable. There can be no slip-ups. WU
MADRID: Diego Simeone aimed a thinly-veiled dig at Pep Guardiola after a feisty and bad-tempered night at the Wanda Metropolitano on Wednesday, where Manchester City’s advance to the Champions League semifinals was overshadowed by a brawl on the pitch and in the tunnel. Simeone was asked after the match if he felt Guardiola had disrespected him during the quarter-final, which City won 1-0 on aggregate after a goalless draw in the second leg. “Often people who have a great vocabulary, who are very intelligent, they can praise you with contempt.
It was surely with a knowing nod that Liverpool, still glowing from once again winning through to the Champions League semi-finals, discovered what happened to Manchester City the same night.
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Stefan Savic was at the centre of the chaos that unfolded during Atletico Madrid 0-0 Manchester City on Wednesday evening.