Pep Guardiola has given his Manchester City side a 1 per cent chance of progressing to the last 16 of the Champions League ahead of their second leg against Real Madrid this week.
Guardiola was without both Ruben Dias and Nathan Ake in the Premier League win over Newcastle on Saturday, but says both may return in Madrid, although Manuel Akanji is out.
‘But the reality, we have been really, really poor in performance in the results this season, and just for one game, that today, played really good, and it’s not going to change the opinion, the reality, the team, it is right now, and we are still not good in terms of day by day.
‘But of course, it’s better to travel to Madrid with this result than imagining defeat in the last minutes, so at the end, okay, the chance is, minor, because the result was not good, five minutes ago, with 2-1, it will be different, but with 2-3, the chances is, but as much as you have a chance, we are going to take it, and we’ll see what happens.’.
‘The margin to win in Bernabeu in that position, everybody knows that if you ask before the game, the percentage to go through, I don’t know, we arrive at 1 per cent, it will be minimal,’ said the City boss.
