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Press Conference: Pep Guardiola on injury news, PSG, Carabao Cup and more

Manchester City are set to face Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals. Ahead of the match head coach Pep Guardiola has talked to the press, providing injury updates, thoughts on the recent Carabao Cup win and more. On John Stones' new contract: "I don't know, no comment, it's not my business. He had a good moments during our period here but this season was the best season with us, no injuries, he was stable."

Reaction to winning the Carabao Cup:

"Every time you get older you realise it's difficult to win titles. If you start the next season telling me I have to win one title, doesn't matter which one, I say it's so difficult. "The Carabao isn't the most important but is so nice. We had one night to enjoy the win against Dortmund, we travelled back from Tottenham with just PSG. Now I'm not thinking at all to win the CL, just to win this game. I said to the players, travel to be ourselves and just to win the game. That's the reason we travel there." On team news: "Everyone it fit, ready, and happy. All of us, as a manager in charge of this club we're grateful to give ourselves this opportunity to be there. When this club it's normal to be there every year like Barcelona and Madrid who have many Champions League. "For us it's new and we're grateful to live it. We've looked at this group of players many years to be here. It's incredible, something new, so nice to go to Paris with all this kind of people."

Thoughts on Neymar:

"Always the quality of the players they have defensive strategies to stop. They are too good, I try to sleep well and I slept well when I didn't think of this. They are incredible players, hopefully they can play. We will try to stop them, we train well all together as a team, play good football and try to score goals. "Of course we have to adjust something, we've fought arriving at this stage, this group of players it wouldn't make sense to not be who are are. We adjusted against Tottenham, we will adjust against Zaha against Palace. We try to impose what we have done these five years. We try to be ourselves and get the result we need for the second leg."

Thoughts on Kylian Mbappe:

"A young player, he'll have the world football ahead of him. Already a French champion, World Cup. Quite similar to Haaland in terms of wow, how many goals, pace. Looks like a nice guy. Mendy is his friend, says he's a nice guy. We're going to try to beat them, all of them."

On Mbappe and Phil Foden comparison:

"They play in different positions. Both are young incredibly skilled, they are in completely different positions so difficult to compare. What is important is PSG will be so happy to have Mbappe and you can't imagine how happy we are to have Phil. "He's a City supporter, he's in the national team. He won that on the grass. I don't give presents to the players if they don't deserve it or they are a City fan. He's playing lately because he's at a good level." Source- Manchester Evening News Join us on Telegram!/ Follow us on Twitter!

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