Pep Guardiola happy with Champions League draw against Gladbach, qualification

“Of course we have the chance to win and get to the next round but I think the whole group we’re in, with Celtic and Barcelona, is a really unsafe group”. “What they do, they do really well, I am really impressed about their quality, their spirit. But we did it, which is why it is big congratulations to the team”. We have to improve in Europe and I believe we can do that.

“Fortunately it’s not too bad in the head, because that is the most hard thing, but in that action he had a little bit of a problem with the knee and the next weeks he will be out”.

“Today all the teams are so strong and anything can happen. So we will wait for the draw and see”.

Fielding a formidable attack with Sergio Aguero, Raheem Sterling and Jesus Navas, City coach Pep Guardiola, back in Germany for the first time since leaving Bayern Munich in the close season, made his intentions clear from the start.

I think we’ve played like nearly ten games more than them already, so that’s a big thing. City is assured of second place due to its head-to-head record against Moenchengladbach, which is three points behind and assured of Europa League participation in third place.

Midfielder Ilkay Gundogan felt the result was more important than the performance.

Firstly City have had little training time after their Champions League trip to Borussia Monchengladbach in midweek, while Guardiola also expects Sean Dyche’s men to bounce back after last weekend’s 4-0 thrashing by West Brom.

“It is definitely not easy to beat them, especially at their home with the crowd and the supporters. We now have one more man that can help us achieve our targets this season”.

City, who reached the semi-finals of the competition last season, are now through to the knockout phase for the fourth successive year.

The 26-year-old said: “I don’t know, to be honest”.

Fernandinho’s sending-off levelled the numbers up again and neither team were prepared to risk much for a win in the closing stages as the result suited both.

“We played the last game not long ago and we have a game [at Burnley] 12.30. We have other options to solve that problem”. “If we recognise that something isn’t going well we try to change and make it better”.

But Schubert s team led Barcelona at Borussia Park until two second-half goals dug Barca out of trouble for a 2-1 win in September.