Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola has urged his side to switch focus to the next game after they eased into the Champions League quarter-finals on the back of a 2 – 0 victory over Borussia Monchengladbach on Tuesday.
Goals from Kevin De Bruyne and Ilkay Gundogan inside the first 18 minutes helped Guardiola’s men to wrap up a comfortable 4-0 aggregate win and book their place in the last eight of the competition for a fourth successive year.
With three trophies to play for, the Spaniard has told his quadruple-chasing side to forget about the Champions League, in a bid to approach their remaining games one after the other.
City are back in action on Saturday as they face Everton in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup at Goodison Park.
Guardiola said: “Everyone is fit – 20 players – but everything can change immediately, in one day.
“We play one more game, then international break, and I don’t know how we’ll react after it. We have Leicester, Champions League, Leeds, Champions League. I don’t know what will happen.
“That’s why the best thing we can do is forget about the quarter-finals and just focus on playing the best way, try to win the games. If we deserve it we’ll go through and if we don’t we’ll be out.
“Now Everton. We will see what happens in the next game and when the quarter-finals are drawn. We will see. I’m happy to be there for a fourth time and we will try to do a good game.”
Guardiola felt his players delivered a professional performance to book their quarter-final place.
Guardiola said: “It was a good performance, (it was) under control for 90 minutes from the beginning.
“We arrived here with good result, we cannot deny that, but this competition can be tricky. We were serious but after the two magnificent goals everything became easier. The way we played was really good.”
