Manchester City continue to beat Liverpool to the lead in the league with a one-point advantage, which allows them to host the third place of Atletico Madrid in La Liga as the premier league leader in the Champions League quarter-finals! Guardiola and Diego Simeone, the two best of the middle generation of coaches, will determine the direction of this season's Champions League!
Manchester City is the third Premier League team encountered by Atletico in this season's Champions League journey, in the group stage, Atletico madrid lost both games against Liverpool, the first round of the knockout round at Atletico faced Manchester United with 1 win and 1 draw, only one win in four games, the Premier League team can be called Atletico's nemesis, and the quarter-final Manchester City is even more menacing, on the one hand, to achieve their Champions League dreams, on the other hand, to avenge the manchester United of the same city, Simeone This round of knockouts is probably more sinister!
How eager is Guardiola for a Champions League title? Since leading Barcelona to the title in 2010-11, Guardiola has been unable to win the Champions League for the next 11 years, and the best result in his coaching resume at Bayern and Manchester City is to reach the final last season, but unfortunately lost to Chelsea and only won a runner-up. Guardiola has won two Champions League titles so far in his coaching career, equaling his lifelong rival Jose Mourinho, and Guardiola is also eager to lead Manchester City to achieve his 11-year wish!
Today's Manchester City soldiers are strong, the personnel is neat, after Guardiola's painstaking management, the progress made by Manchester City in the past 5 years is visible to the naked eye, the stability of the team exceeds the Mancini and Pellegrini period, the reinforcement is also very targeted, that is, closely around guardiola's pass control system, Manchester City has turned the Premier League into their only stage, champions Officia Guardiola is more determined to win! After losing last season's final, Guardiola has a more painful feeling, this season's league two legs double kill Chelsea revenge, Guardiola may also understand, as long as he no longer arbitrarily change the team, Manchester City has fully equipped to win the conditions!
Is Simeone's Atletico still a chance? There is but it is difficult, we see the road to Atletico promotion is extremely bumpy, the group stage almost can not be in the Liverpool, AC Milan and Porto in the siege of the siege, the sense of powerlessness in the face of Liverpool makes all Atletico people feel desperate, the first round of the knockout round encountered the weakest group first Manchester United, Atletico is also stumbling, in their own home stadium can not win the current people to bully Manchester United, until the visit to Old Trafford when Atletico's state has rebounded, played unity and the whole, with blood to fight a kill, Advance!
Facing The Premier League giants Manchester City, where does Simeone go? Also as the defending champions of the league, Manchester City is still sitting firmly under Liverpool's poor pursuit, especially the defense is rock solid, the league only conceded 18 goals, is the team with the fewest goals conceded in the five major leagues, and the offensive firepower is not to be spared, 70 goals are second only to Liverpool and Bayern in the Bundesliga! On the other hand, Atletico, 12 points behind Real Madrid, the league defense is basically hopeless, La Liga scored 57 goals and conceded 37 goals, which is placed in the Premier League, that is, the sixth place West Ham almost the data, can only say that Atletico Madrid in the data level is completely unable to resist Guardiola's Manchester City!
Manchester City still have the opportunity to attack the treble this season, and there is no doubt that the Champions League title is their first priority, Guardiola's desire for the Big Ears Cup exceeds anyone, Manchester City also desperately need a Champions League trophy to secure their position as the new giants in the Premier League, can they do it this season?