Real clash, my biggest challenge says pep

Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola thinks that his side’s Champion’s League match with La Liga giants will be one of the best challenge of his career.

The Blues boss expressed a belief that he could face the sack if they crash out in the last 16, with Liverpool already close to clinching the Premier League title, but that seems to be Guardiola keeping himself on his toes rather than any real fear of getting the push. And he has made it plain, in an interview with Football Daily, that a failure to win trophies should not be equated with failure itself. The fact that City have never won Europe’s premier club trophy simply adds to the difficulty of achieving it, says Guardiola. “That’s why it is so difficult to win it. And in 100 and more seasons of history for Manchester City, it was 100 seasons of failure – that is not true,” he said.