Manchester City are about to embark on a brutal run of fixtures that could determine the success of their season.
Over the next 11 days the Blues will face Atletico Madrid over two legs in the Champions League quarter-finals, as well as a top of the table Premier League clash with Liverpool, before an FA Cup semi-final against the same opponent a week later. The thought of enduring what is bound to be an intense 360 minutes of football is enough to send shivers down most supporters' spines, but City boss Pep Guardiola appears, for the time being, to be remarkably cool.
After City comfortably dispatched of Burnley with a 2-0 win on Saturday — a result that reinstated their one point advantage over Liverpool at the top of the table — Guardiola was in a relaxed mood. He even kicked off his post-match press conference with a joke, before explaining that Atletico and Liverpool have not been at the forefront of his mind recently.
