Manchester City midfield kingpin Rodri says the Blues will change nothing as they head into the two biggest games of their season. Pep Guardiola’s team face Liverpool in a crunch Premier League clash on Sunday before heading to Madrid two days later for the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final against Atletico.
Guardiola said after the Blues had established a 1-0 lea d in the first leg that he did not know what to expect from Atletico in the return leg. But it seems obvious that they will have to be more expansive, as their ultra-defensive set-up offered virtually no goal threat at the Etihad Stadium.
The manager’s point was that he was not going to worry about how his opposite number Diego Simeone will go about reversing the deficit. He aims to stick to his basic approach - controlling possession and playing the game in the opposition half.