Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola will be hoping for a Bayern Munich win when the German giants face Liverpool at the Allianz Arena in the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie on Wednesday.
City whitewashed Schalke 7-0 at the Etihad to go through on a 10-2 aggregate win and the Spaniard hopes his former team joins him in the quarter-finals stage at the expense of Jurgen Klopp’s men.
“I’m sorry for the English people but I want Bayern to go through,” Guardiola said. “I am part of this club. I love Munich. I love Bayern. I have a lot of friends there.”
“We had a lot of absences today, a lot of central defenders injured. We just had Danilo, who was incredible.
“I would have liked us to show who were are in the first 20 minutes but I understand the situation sometimes, you cannot expect to play like we were four or five ahead.
City’s 10-2 aggregate win was the biggest ever by an English team in a Champions League last-16 tie.