Bernardo Silva believes Pep Guardiola will tell Manchester City to have no regrets when they walk out for the Champions League final this weekend.
City are in their second Champions League final in three years and will face Inter Milan in Istanbul on Saturday. Having beaten Bayern Munich and Real Madrid to reach the final, Bernardo has outlined the pre-match message from Guardiola ahead of those big games.
Predicting a similar message this weekend, Bernardo says Guardiola will tell his players to seize the moment, enjoy the final, and accept that they can lose to the world-class team they are facing.
And it is that 'no regrets' message that helped City beat Real Madrid in the semi-finals that Bernardo feels will help his side in their quest to win the Champions League final for the first time.
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Bernardo said: “The main message that he passes to us in these matches, not only against Real Madrid, but in this match against Real Madrid [in the semi-final], because we’re in a semi-final of the Champions League, and because last year we had a match with them where they knocked us out in a strange way.
"It was tough for us to accept it, so we have to understand that we can lose because we’re playing against one of the best teams in the world, but we have to reach the end of the tie and have no regrets.
“We have to reach the end of the tie with no regrets, knowing that we did everything we could possibly do to have the best chance to reach the final."
Continuing, Bernardo said that embracing the moment and enjoying the final will be key to City's hopes of beating Inter.
“We have to be yourselves, have ball possession, apply high pressure, control the match, and create more chances to score," he added.
“And if we did that, we knew that we would be a little bit closer to our final objective [in the semi-final], knowing that we would be playing against a great team, but also enjoying the moment because playing a semi-final in the Champions League is special.
“Reaching these moments is always very tough, so if you don’t seize it and enjoy it, you don’t know if you’ll ever be able to do it again. And I also think that you’ll get a little bit further from your objective because when you do things with enjoyment, you do them better.”
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