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“They are masters of defending deep” – Guardiola reflects on City’s draw against Inter Milan


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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has reacted to his side’s Champions League draw against Inter Milan on Wednesday night.

The Citizens played out a scoreless draw with the Italians at the Etihad in a repeat of the 2022-23 final.

Manchester City played a goalless draw against Inter Milan in one of Wednesday’s Champions League games. (Image: @ManCity on X)

ā€œWe faced a really, really difficult team, the champions from Italy,ā€ said Guardiola after he match.

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ā€œThey are physical and they have [strength in] all departments.

ā€œThey are masters of defending deep. They help each other unbelievably so you cannot expect to create a lot of chances. We created some chances.

ā€œWe played much better than two years ago in the final of the Champions League. I like everything from my team today. We would prefer to win but still seven games, see what happens.ā€

Manchester City defender Rico Lewis (L) and Inter Milan’s Iranian striker Mehdi Taremi during their Champions League clash. (Image: @ManCity on X)

Despite the outcome of the game, Pep says he was happy with the outcome of the game. He said he liked “everything from my team today.”

During the game, England player Phil Foden and German midfield maestro Ilkay Gundogan were introduced at half-time for Savinho and Kevin De Bruyne respectively.

De Bruyne’s injury

Reacting to his decision, the Spanish manager said it wasnā€™t due to injury as he already made the decision to change irrespective of the knock suffered by De Bruyne just before the end of the first half.

ā€œThe way they defend, I said after 35 minutes I want to make this change. After what happened with Kevin and the doctors said he was not ready to play, but I wanted to make the change anyway.”

Kevin De Bruyne sustained a knock during City’s Champions League game against Inter at the Etihad (Image: @brfootball on X)

ā€œI donā€™t know [how Kevin is]. I didnā€™t speak with doctors yet. I will have more info tomorrow.

ā€œI have the weapons and sometimes we need something different. We need it against this structure.


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