Pep Guardiola after Manchester City reach Champions League knockout stage

Guardiola’s men have stumbled in recent Premier League matches that follow hot on the heels of European ties.

Elsewhere on the injury front, Sergio Aguero suffered a blow to his foot versus Gladbach and the Argentina striker – along with his compatriot Pablo Zabaleta – will be assessed before Saturday’s assignment at Turf Moor.

Despite conceding early, David Silva’s late first-half equaliser salvaged a point for Manchester City in Group C. “We are in the Europa League now – that was our aim, and we have done it”.

“After we got the red card we just killed the game and that was the most important thing”, said the Belgium star, whose team-mates qualify as Group C runners up behind Barcelona.

That being said, I wouldn’t want to be backing it at such a short price. “Big congratulations to my team”.

“We will wait to see who we will face”.

The five-time World Player of the Year, who excelled for Guardiola at the Camp Nou, has always been linked with City, especially since his mentor was appointed manager at the Etihad Stadium. We have to go to Europe and play in the same way.

“We can’t forget they (Burnley) beat Liverpool, lost in the 93rd minute against Arsenal and drew at Old Trafford”.

Manchester City would like to resume being tough domestically.

“We have qualification in the pocket until February so now we can concentrate on the Premier League and be so satisfied”.

Toure scored twice on his return to the side against Crystal Palace last week after the club’s long-running row with his agent was resolved.

Yaya Toure says he’s simply doing the best he can to contribute to Man City in any way possible. “It’s going to be decided in the last two months”. Yet when asked about the importance of defeating Burnley before embarking upon all of this, Guardiola said: “It will be complicated for the other teams as well”.

“His teammates love him”.

The price of 2/7 suggests an easy afternoon for the visitors, but after caving in against West Brom on Monday night, Sean Dyche will be working on tightening up his defence.

The manager has no new injury concerns ahead of the visit of Man City but it wouldn’t surprise me if he made a few changes, including putting Andre Gray back in the starting XI. There was not enough energy, enough fight actually. Their 11 goals are better than only new boys Middlesbrough and Hull City, and the team seems to be overly reliant on Welsh forward Sam Vokes, who has four of them.

“We need to pick ourselves up”. That is why I think that the team who finally gets to win the Premier League deserves a lot of credit. In that moment it was more hard as well because we didn’t have so much experience.