Pep Guardiola response to treble question after FA Cup final completes Man City mentality turnaround

Manchester City have slowly, and with more confidence, changed their tune regarding the Champions League throughout this season - and the reaction to Saturday's FA Cup win completed the transformation in attitude.

As they stand 90 minutes from their first-ever Champions League title, Pep Guardiola and his players have spent years insisting that the European Cup won't define them. That anything can happen in Europe - as City know all too well - and they will be remembered as a great team regardless of whether they lift that famous cup or not.

Now, City players and Guardiola are not afraid to put the pressure on themselves by saying: 'We need to win the Champions League'. It was the main thing on their minds after sending Manchester United back up north without the cup.

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In the build-up to the Champions League clashes with Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, Guardiola said on multiple occasions that the City organisation both demand and need the trophy to complete their project over the last decade or so. They have conquered England - as this weekend's domestic double underlined - but have found more inventive ways to exit the Champions League with every passing year.

This season, though, feels different, as City have been ruthless in dispatching the two most likely rivals for the competition in Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, as well as putting seven past RB Leipzig. Throughout the run, the message from the City dressing room has increasingly made it clear that this group - and this club - should be winning the Champions League. If they don't they are accepting that they haven't reached the heights they should have done.

Even after beating