By Seyi Babalola
Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has charged his players to “hurt and punish” Real Madrid on Tuesday night.
Both sides face off in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie in Spain.
Last season, City hammered Real 4-0 in the second leg of their semi-final clash on their way to winning the trophy for the first time in the club’s history.
Guardiola believes City now have the belief to go on and dominate in Europe.
He said ahead of the game at the Bernabeu: “We cannot come here just to control the game.
“We have to come here to try to hurt them, to punish them, to let them know we are here to score the goals.
We’re talking about Real, who have the ability to control many aspects of the game, but we have to impose our game with who we are. It’s the same managers, but we have new players and they have new players, so it will be a completely different game to last season.”
