Pep Guardiola has spoken of his delight at the passion of his players thus far in the FIFA Club World Cup.
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After winning our opening encounter 2-0 in Philadelphia against Wydad AC, City comprehensively defeated Al Ain 6-0 on Monday in Atlanta.
With the score set at 3-0 at half-time, Guardiola’s men attacked intently in the second period as we looked to overtake Juventus on goals for in Group G.
We just edged up short, with The Old Lady on +nine and the Blues on +eight after two games.
That means only victory will do in Thursday’s decider between the European giants in Orlando for City to take top spot.
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Reflecting on the impressive triumph over the UAE Pro League side and the passion of his players both on the pitch and on the bench, the boss said: “Absolutely. We talked about that, that competition, seven games like the World Cup, or the European Cups, Copa America, the tactics are relatively important but not massively.
“It’s how everyone pushes, it’s just five or six games so make real a contribution, the body language.
“We spoke at half time about scoring as much as possible but in the end we played against our opponent.
“Juventus play another opponent, they maybe do better than us but now if we want to finish first we have to beat the Italian team.
“If not and we’re second we’ll see who we play in the next round.”
Watch the manager’s press conference in the video player above.