From our special correspondent in Lisbon,
Manchester City is enjoying Cascais, where the Citizens have been preparing under the sun and since Monday their Champions League quarter-final against Olympique Lyonnais. Especially Pep Guardiola, who has already been able to enjoy a glass or two of local wines. Aymeric Laporte, who accompanied him to the pre-match press conference, turns out to be on the water and seems ready to do battle against OL, whom he is eager to find.
“It's always special when you have the opportunity to play against a team from your native country. So I can't wait to play against OL. I remember the goal I scored against them, I hope I can score another one and we can skip this round. "
Favorite, City do not start out as a winner and are as wary of their opponents as of this format which makes everything possible. The magic of the Coupe de France, European version. “On two home and away matches, the big guys have an advantage… But here, we saw that the first two games [of Final 8] were very similar and my inspiration is that tomorrow will be very similar to the previous two. Namely, according to Laporte that it will be necessary "to fight until the end".
OL, not an easy opponent
Faithful to him, Pep has in any case revised his files well. It is out of the question to underestimate OL, which hardly succeeded in 2018. “OL have a lot of experience in the Champions League but we will try to beat them. […] We know very well this Lyon team, very organized, very fast, which have great attackers and very strong full-backs [he is surely thinking of Maxwell Cornet]. It's a great team, OL arrived in the quarter-finals and we can't expect them to be an easy opponent to play. "
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