"I realise I'm getting old! Every week is a milestone. Every season we have been there and hopefully next season we will be there too. It's special for the players, managers and everyone. To challenge yourself with the best teams in Europe is incredible, a huge experience. For the club, in terms of repetition, prestige, financial issues, it's massively important."
"There are more disappointments than good moments. There have been good moments, especially in group stages, we have been top every season, except last season with the new format. But of course, it has been a top experience. Good moments and bad moments define a team, a club. Sport is tough, so not everything is flowers on the road, or easy and comfortable."
Pep Guardiola will oversee his 100th Champions League match in charge of Manchester City, becoming the third manager to reach 100 European Cup or Champions League games with an English club after Alex Ferguson and Arsène Wenger. City have won 62, drawn 19 and lost 18 of their first 99 games under Guardiola and captured their first European crown against Inter in Istanbul in 2023. City have 10 points from four games in the 2025–26 group stage and sit fourth in the 36-team standings with Bayer Leverkusen five points behind. City need one more point to equal last season's league-stage total; last season they scraped into the knockouts in 22nd before a 6-3 aggregate loss to Real Madrid. City have not trailed at any point this Champions League season and have led for 62% of their total match time.
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