ON FIRE PEP GUARDIOLA PRESS CONFERENCE AHEAD OF REAL MADRID TOMORROW:
Pep Guardiola on whether #ManCity fans embrace the #UCL: "Of course, they embrace it. We are used to play in this competition and arrive in the last stages for the last years. The Club told me it is sold out, so we try to do a good game."
Pep Guardiola on whether the next months defines his #ManCity legacy: "My legacy is exceptional already..."
Pep Guardiola: "We are not stupid to know how important tomorrow is. Maybe the most important since we've been here. I say to the players, live it, enjoy the moment. How fortunate we are. It's in our hands, depends on us, don't have to do anything exceptional..."
Pep Guardiola: "Be ourselves, give everything. I have an incredible feeling about the team. Whatever happens, thank you so much for bringing me, us, all of us, #ManCity fans to be here again."
Pep Guardiola: "The emotion is there and will be high. It has to be high. Just this is not going to beat a team like Real Madrid. We need a bit better game plan, adjust a little bit. Create more chances for our strikers - get more balls in easy positions..."
Pep Guardiola: "We know their transitions, the quality. We play against Real Madrid in the semi of the #UCL, the toughest opponents. It's a challenge. We go for it."
Pep Guardiola: "We arrive really good, in the #EmiratesFACup final, one game from the #PL title, but we have to play better than Madrid. We have to perform well, not just the desire. Relax, only have to do what we have done many years..."
Pep Guardiola: "This is what we have to do, not just the desire to reach the #UCL final. We have to be better than the Bernabeu to get the final."
Pep Guardiola: "When I arrived at #ManCity, they didn't say, 'Win the #UCL!' They said to try to do the best as possible. We won all the titles except this one. We want it..."
Pep Guardiola: "It's a dream come true to come here. Nobody guarantees in the future we'll be here. Once we are there, let's go. Try to go for it, be together in the bad moments, suffer, we play with our people."
Pep Guardiola: "I know they [#ManCity fans] will be close to us. They will be with us. The pressure is doing our game. We play 11 vs 11. In the bad moments, they will be there..."
Pep Guardiola says the rest of the #ManCity squad is fully-fit.
Pep Guardiola: βI have an idea to do something differently, just to be more fluid in attack..."
Pep Guardiola: "I don't want luck tomorrow. The team who deserves to win, hopefully wins. Doesn't matter which one, hopefully it will be us. The players have to make an incredible performance to beat Madrid..."
Pep Guardiola: "I play 10 semi-finals in the #UCL, I lost seven. I know that feeling, there are many things you can't control..."
Pep Guardiola on doing better #ManCity performance: "Hopefully you can see tomorrow. I cannot tell you, otherwise Carlo [Ancelotti] will hear..."
Pep Guardiola: "I'm not overthinking tomorrow, don't worry guys..."
Pep Guardiola: "If we had the game last year [4-3 vs Madrid], I'd sign right now. I don't think it'll happen, the game dictates. The fluency, when you have the ball, how you react. The #UCL is uncertain, you can't control. We'll see, have a plan and secure it..."
Pep Guardiola: "After the first season, first I wouldn't expect seven years. I have incredible self confidence but not enough. This #PL is really tough. How pleased I am with this consistency is always there..."
Pep Guardiola: "They [#ManCity players] don't have to put pressure of the owners or myself. Have to do it for themselves. They have done anything in the past, last season they did it. Just play a football game as best as they can... To live, we are blessed."
Pep Guardiola on why Real Madrid are so good in the #UCL: "I don't know, if I knew I'd know how to beat them. The reason is they've always had quality players. Without that standard, they wouldn't achieve..."
Pep Guardiola on Real Madrid: "They always have a great squad... I think about what we're going to do, our strengths and what our threats can be. We'll try to impose ourselves on the game. We know what we can do. We want to minimise their threats."
Pep Guardiola: "My legacy; we've scored lots, won lots. Maybe we could have a book about my legacy but I won't be judged on the #UCL. We've had a great time, played great football. We had great times with Arteta, it's the best legacy you can have..."
Pep Guardiola: "We've worked a lot, had a few days in Liverpool, not done anything different you know we can do. Nothing will change, approach the game in the same way. Wouldn't make sense to change tactics. You think about your opponents..."
Pep Guardiola: "It's impossible to pick out defect of opposition. We've worked on a few things, we'll meet up, eat together, get on the bus and go and play the game."
Pep Guardiola: "Be ourselves, don't complicate things, relax. We beat Sevilla, but wasn't a great performance. We've not lost, may have drawn a few. We won every game when we got to the #UCL final. Drew in Porto in the groups and lost the final..."
Pep Guardiola: "Tomorrow, 8PM, be the best game. Doesn't exist anything in the past. Don't worry about the past, perform the best you have."
That is the end of Pep Guardiola's pre-Real Madrid press conference.