Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has admitted his side will need 'one or two days' to get over last night's Champions League defeat to Real Madrid. The Premier League leaders conceded three injury time goals as they were dumped out of the competition at the semi-final stage.
City are set to face Newcastle United at the Etihad this weekend with all eyes on how they'll respond. Just one point separates Guardiola's side from Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool and neither can afford to slip up.
Guardiola told the Guardian : "We need one or two days but we will rise, we will come up. We will have do so, with our people. We did everything we could. We were really, really close but in the end we could not do it.”
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When asked if it was his hardest night in Europe as a manager, he said: “I have had bad defeats in the Champions League before. [Such as] Barcelona against Chelsea when we played two exceptional games and couldn’t make the final. But, yeah, it’s tough. We can’t deny it.
“We were so close to reaching a Champions League final. We didn’t play that good in the first half but we were much better in the second half, we controlled the game and we found the goal. Unfortunately, we could not finish [it] when we were close.”
