Manchester City had annonced to compete in the worldwide Champions cup in the very starting week of February 2016.
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Asked what he hoped to achieve from the game, he said: ‘No injuries.
“We didn’t see the pitch but there is a lot of water in the last days so we understand it’s not in a good condition but okay we’re going to adapt and adjust”, he said.
But their preparations for the game aren’t going to plan, as winger Memphis Depay revealed on Facebook.
The history between the two coaches goes back to their classic La Liga clashes when Guardiola led Barcelona while Mourinho was in charge of Real Madrid.
He has gotten slower as he enters the latter stages of his career, but Mourinho will now be looking to reignite his goal scoring appetite as they enter the new Premier League season. And on the other hand Borussia Dortmund which is simply called as Dortmund and is a german sports club which us based in Dortmund, North Rhine westpjalia.
We seem to have the answer to at least one of those questions already as the United captain has told the press that he and his new gaffer have arrived at a decision on where he will be playing for the next season.
“It’s a friendly game”. “But it is a friendly game, a really friendly game”.
Guardiola believes that Mourinho’s arrival will make United more of a threat after three years of under-achievement under David Moyes and Louis van Gaal since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement.
Barely a month since he took over at Man City, Guardiola finds himself facing old rival Jose Mourinho in the upcoming game against Manchester neighbors United.
Manchester United’s International Championship Cup campaign kicked off with a 4-1 defeat to Borussia Dortmund, which can sit anywhere on a spectrum between understandable, disappointing and downright embarrassing.
It’s too early to know how United will be.
Using a quirky motorsport reference to explain the difference with Dortmund, Mourinho said: “I don’t think I can analyse them [the players] with such difference in preparation”.
Ousmane Dembele produced the moment of the match to score Dortmund’s third before Henrikh Mkhitaryan added a consolation for United against his former employers.
But Guardiola admits that fixtures in the Far East are unavoidable in the modern world of commercialism in football.
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“But in my club we are not going to have that”.
