The Manchester City manager agrees with the Celtic boss regarding Barcelona’s ability to win heavily against any team.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has told The Glasgow Evening Times that he agrees with Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers regarding Barcelona.
Celtic suffered a heavy 7-0 defeat to Barcelona away from home at Camp Nou in Champions League Group C earlier this month.
After the match, Rodgers said that Barca have inflicted similar defeats on other teams.
“Professionally it is never nice when that happens, [but] these are top class players and they have done that to much better teams than us,” The Guardian quoted the former Liverpool manager as saying.
Guardiola, who was in charge of the Barcelona first team from 2008 until 2012, has said that the Celtic boss is right about the Spanish giants.
“I agree with what Brendan [Rodgers] said before,” the City manager told The Glasgow Evening Times. “Many teams suffer what happened to them in Barcelona.
“I know what it means when Barcelona start quick. Celtic miss a penalty and then 2-0 and 3-0. Mentally, the players are a little bit absent with everything that has happened.
“Barcelona can score goals in five minutes. But this is here. And it will be completely different.”
City will take on Celtic away from home at Celtic Park in Glasgow in the Champions League on Wednesday evening.
The Citizens will head into the match as favourites and should be able to pick up all three points.
However, Celtic will have learnt from their hammering at Barcelona and will not make it easy for City.
It is very unlikely that the Premier League outfit will be able to score seven goals at Celtic Park.
Celtic will head into the match against City on the back of a 6-1 victory over Kilmarnock at Celtic Park in the Scottish Premiership.
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