Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has said his team has to be up for the challenge of overturning their one-goal deficit to Tottenham, if they are to become a high-level team.
Son Heung-Min’s 78th-minute strike secured a 1-0 win for Spurs in their Champions League quarter-final first leg on Tuesday night.
City remain in the hunt for the Quadruple, but Guardiola said that his players should expect difficult moments, if they are to have any chance of winning the Champions League for the first time in the club’s history.
“The teams that arrive in the later stages, you have to do that – it’s a challenge.
“I didn’t expect to come here and solve the situation.
“We would have liked to score an away goal, because we know how important it is. I would say if we did not play good, but I don’t have that feeling.
“For the high levels you have to live these situations. When you get to the quarterfinals and semifinals, and play the first leg away from home, you can’t expect to win 0-3. That is the reality, it happened in many teams. Now we have another chance and that is the point,” Guardiola told a news conference.
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