Man City: Bernardo Silva claims that he is not in the same ‘Dark Place’, but admits seasonal joints at Real Madrid Tie | Football news
Bernardo Silva believes that Manchester City is not in the same “dark place” and were at the end of 2024, but admitted that the situation was still “perfect” with their seasons that now depended on the second leg of the Champions League against Real Madrid.
Silva commented in November after his team fell to a 4-1 defeat for Sporting in Europe, a game that marked one flaw at the time during their seven fasteners without a victory, but the 30-year-old insists on the situation now is improved.
City is still sporadic in its form, as they have outlined their defeat of 3-2 Real Madrid in the first part of the play-offs, and the impressive 4-0 is followed by Newcastle last weekend, but Silva is a safe team Continue his revival by overcoming a one -goal deficit in Bernabeu on Wednesday to save his season.
Asked about his comments “Dark Place” in front of the conflict, Silva said, “When the team is as successful, as ours has been in the last seven to eight seasons, you lose a few and are not used to it.
“We don’t accept. It doesn’t answer us not to win. It was frustrating, but I think the team is at a better moment, but it’s still not perfect, especially in terms of results.
“We’re not in the same dark place I felt, like in November.”
Although she is still in the fight for progress in the Champions League and recently progressed in the FA Cup after he came from behind to avoid shame against League One by Leyton Orient, Silva claimed that the city season was now dependent on the victory in Madrid.
He added, “I think my teammates need a lot of motivation to play this competition and opponent. It will be such a special game.
“As for what it is to us after so many of our results, to stay in this competition, knowing that we will not win the most important one season, which is the Premier League, it is a motivation for us.
“Knowing that we are in a worse place than when the tie started because we played at home and lost. We believe that this is possible, knowing that we play against a very good team with special moments in this competition.
“We believe we can come here and try to bring in problems with this Madrid team, knowing that they are the upper side.”
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City is currently sitting in fourth place in the Premier League, 16 points of Liverpool leader.
The threat to get away from the 2024/25 campaign without a silver accessory is now big if they fail to overcome the terrifying task of beating Madrid from home, after also abandoning Carabao Cup against Tottenham during running seven games without victory that led to Silva’s original Comments “Dark Place”.
“Very disappointing safely,” Silva said when asked to think about the season so far. “When the season started, I wouldn’t believe you told you that we were in that position in the Premier League and played Madrid in the play-off, not in the last stages.
“We put ourselves in this situation, so we deserve to be in this complicated situation that we play this team in the play-off. We ended up 22. If I’m not mistaken.
“If things don’t go our way, it will be a lesson for the future. We still believe, but it’s a lesson for the future.”
Guardiola calls ‘courage’ from his players to beat Madrid
Guardiola is well aware of the task in his hand, and City is without a win in the last three meetings with Los Blancos on the way, but echoed Silva’s belief and invited his players to show “courage” in a match that defines the season on Wednesday night.
When asked what it needed for his side to progress in the competition, Guardiola said, “Almost the perfect game. The result was not good.
“But the result is not a perfect situation, we have to attack and score goals. That’s the idea.
“Play with courage and be alone. You have to play to win the game, otherwise you can lose. The times we worked well was because we played to win the game.”
