Manchester City’s De Bruyne aiming for Champions League final

After that, at this level everyone can beat you, but I don’t like my team to speculate. That can happen but the idea is to try to play our way. “What you have to do is go to score goals”. “They’re the best team in the world at scoring goals, they attack not with four or five but six guys”.

He said: “I could not assure anyone (of success), even when we won the Champions League with Barcelona, or arrived in the semi-finals with Bayern Munich”. Set pieces. You lose five minutes of concentration and you’re out.

Falcao added that Monaco will need to show more focus to retain any hope of going through to the quarter-finals.

Monaco’s Colombia striker Radamel Falcao scored twice in Manchester but there are doubts about his fitness ahead of the return after he suffered a hip injury at the weekend.

“We’re not going to change”, said full back Pablo Zabaleta. “We have to wait until tomorrow to take a decision”.

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“Citizens”, after the game with the Monegasques also looked very good – in the FA Cup Guardiola’s team advanced to the semifinals, alternately beating “Huddersfield” (5: 1) and “Middlesbrough” (2: 0) in the championship was a guest victory over the “Sunderland” (2: 0) and totally unexpected home draw with “sink” (0: 0).

“I don’t think players forget how to play football”.

A stirring late comeback from City with three goals in the final 19 minutes gives them a 5-3 advantage and they are now just 2/9 to reach the last eight of the competition.

Monaco are enjoying a fantastic season. “They are a top, top team”. (PSG are an exception and, indeed, it is their serial progress to the Champions League knockout stages that has kept Ligue 1 as Europe’s fifth highest-ranked league.) Monaco have more money than most but prestigious foreign clubs are preparing to pounce this summer on their emerging stars.

“We have to play in a very professional way, trying to control the game and showing our experience“. The record is now held by Louis van Gaal who won 61, drew 22 and lost 17 of his first 100 games in Europe.

The Nigeria global was left out of the matchday squad for five consecutive games starting from City’s 2-2 home Premier League draw against Tottenham on Saturday, February 21.

The former France coach, who is now an adviser to Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas, believes that only inexperience prevented Monaco from obtaining better result in the first leg.