According to Tasnim news agency, Pep Guardiola’s team under his leadership last night (Tuesday) in the fifth round of the group stage of the European Champions League and in a ceremonial game (the promotion of both teams to the next stage had already been decided) welcomed Leipzig and finally succeeded Shed turned a 2-0 defeat against his guests into a 3-2 win. After this game, he said: “Leipzig has always reached the round of 16 and the quarter-finals of the Champions League five or six years ago. As in the game against Chelsea, we allowed the opponent to create a lot of chances in this game. In such games you have to win duels, but we did not succeed in doing that in this game and played anxiously.
He added: “In football, you have to keep calm as much as you can.” We reacted very well in the second half. We reached our first goal, which was to advance from the group stage as the leader. There is still one more game left and we are in the lead. I am very satisfied with the reaction of my players in the second half. They ran high, fought high and had high morale. I am sure that if we needed a win to advance to the round of 16, we would not have played like this. I must also mention that we were lucky in this game.
Manchester City have made a good start to their title defense with 15 points from their first five games in the Champions League group stage.
