Press conference: Pep Guardiola speaks out on Ake and Torres, Eric Garcia, Real Madrid, Aguero and more

Manchester City are preparing to face Real Madrid in the Champions League round of 16 second-leg game on Friday, August 8. First leg between the teams ended with City's 2-1 win before the season was put on hold due to coronavirus pandemic. Ahead of the second-leg, Pep Guardiola hold a press conference and spoke out on different subjects. On Nathan Ake and Ferran Torres  "Welcome both of them. Next season they will be with us." On first leg advantage  "It was a long time ago we played the first leg. We knew it after the game we would have another here at home. It is without our people but we will try to do a good game." On Barcelona's interest in Eric Garcia "He announced to us that he doesn’t want to extend his contract with MC. He has one more year and after that, he doesn’t want to extend. We want it but he doesn’t want to extend it so I imagine he wants to play in other places." On Aguero "Right now I don’t know. He is still in Barcelona. He is getting better, i spoke with the doctors and everything is like we thought but he is still in Barcelona so I don’t know. Hopefully he can come back and start training with us but I don’t know." On Zidane "It’s difficult to know when you think that you’ve got one of his tactical plans covered he’ll hit you with another or revert. It is already very difficult to analyse tactics. In the dim and distant past we played the first leg and what we can remember from that we will put to good use. Since then, we’ve watched all Madrid’s games since La Liga restarted so we’ve spoken about how we think Madrid might approach this game but what we have done more is speak as a squad about how we can hurt Madrid and cause problems for them. That is what we’ve been focusing on in the buildup to this game." source - Manchester Evening News Join us on Telegram

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