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Guardiola promises offensive City in UCL quarter final second leg vs Dortmund

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has insisted that his charges will not seat on their 2-1 first leg quarter final lead when they visit the Signal iduna Park for the second leg.
Kevin De Bruyne and Phil Foden scored for City while Marco Reus netted for Dortmund at the Etihad Stadium on Teusday in a nervy first leg.
It means that City will now take a slender advantage into next week’s return leg away to Dortmund next Wednesday. 
City have suffered consecutive quarter-final exits in the past three seasons – eliminated by Liverpool, Tottenham and Lyon – but Guardiola insisted the Premier League leaders will continue to attack against Dortmund.
“Listen, when you play a game after 26 victories in the last 27 games and they are not winning in the Bundesliga and are seven points behind the Champions League places, the pressure is on our shoulders, not them,” Guardiola told reporters.
“Everything is guaranteed for us. In this competition it’s so tough and the opponents are so good, I’ve said in the news conference. Everybody believed and our players as well that we would win. We have an incredible commitment and desire to go through. Now we fly there at 2-1.
“We know that we have to score goals because they have the quality to score goals and always they score. We will adjust a few things we could not do today. We are going to reflect in a calm way, the best way possible, the game we played and see what we can do better and we are going to go there like we have done in the last four, five, six months – going there to win the game.
“I asked the players ‘just win the game, I don’t want anything else’, we did it. Now we are going to Dortmund to absolutely not defend, we are going to adjust our high pressing, adjust our build up, control the runners and try to play 90 minutes to reach the semi-final.”

Sammy Wejinya

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