Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has urged his players to embrace the pressure that comes with the Champions league knockout stage as they prepare to host French Ligue 1 table toppers AS Monaco.
"To be here is not easy,"
"I want to convince the players to enjoy that moment, it is beautiful." Guardiola said, he admitted that critics will 'kill them' if they do not progress.
While Guardiola has reached the semifinals seven times in his managerial career his current team Manchester City has made it to the semifinals just once (last season) and only four times to the knockout phase.
"Our recent history is quite good but over the long history, Manchester City was not here for a long time.
"All of Europe will watch us, to analyse us, to kill us if we don't win or say how good we are if we do." he concluded.
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