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Pep Guardiola Reacts To Reaching UEFA Champions League Final

Pep Guardiola Reacts To Reaching UEFA Champions League Final

Manchester City (4) 2-0 (1) Paris Saint-Germain

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has reacted to qualifying for a UEFA Champions League final for the first time since 2011, when he was still in charge of Barcelona.

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It is no secret that the Citizens lured the Spaniard to England in 2016 with the hopes that he could make them European champions, but that has not been an easy road so far.

Advancing to the semi-final stage of the competition would have been the furthest City had gone under Guardiola so far, but, following their 4-1 aggregate win over Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday night, their dream now continues.

Speaking after the match, Guardiola, who last made it to a Champions League final in 2011 with the Catalan giants, revealed that he feels it was all worth the long wait.  

"It is for all of us and the club," he told BCC Sport.

"I'm incredibly proud and my first thoughts are with the players who didn't play today. They all deserved to play, everyone has made a contribution and now it is time to enjoy it. We have to win the league and we have two or three weeks to prepare for the final.

"(PSG) put a lot of players in the middle and we struggled a lot in the first half to high press. We changed at half-time.

"We recovered the ball better in the second half and we were much better in the way we played. 4-1 on aggregate against a team that beat Barcelona and Bayern Munich means a lot to us.

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"They win the league every year, they are a team built to win, they fought to the end. They are a huge team, but we were so composed. We fought together and we're in the final of the Champions League – those are nice words.

"People believe it's easy to arrive in the final of the Champions League. Getting to the final now makes sense of what we have done in the past four or five years. Every day, these guys have been consistent and this is remarkable.

"We scored a goal through the hips in the first game, and today Marquinhos hit the bar in the first half – you can be out for little details.

"United won a title because of John Terry's slip and Real won a title against Atletico in the 93rd minute. It's a competition that is so difficult and something in the stars is involved in that."

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Guardiola won the Champions League twice with Barcelona, in 2009 and 2011, with both wins coming over Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United.

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