Ruben Dias says that the players of Manchester City must believe that they can get a miracle in Madrid to keep their Champions League hops alive.
Real Madrid organized a dramatic late comeback to score twice and to take a 3-2 victory in the first stage of their Champions League play-off in City. The side of Pep Guardiola now faces a huge challenge in beating Real to continue the last 16 in the return bone in the Bernabeu on Wednesday.
Holders Real, who have won the competition 15 times a record, are heavy favorites to reach the knock -out phase at the expense of the city. But Stadsdeverdiger Dias really warned that Guardiola's side still has the firepower to revise them – as long as they believe they can do it.
“Now it's a matter of conviction,” said Dias. “How much do we believe in ourselves and do we believe that we can continue? We are aware of it. We know exactly the game we are going to play there.
“We have been there before and it will only be about how much we believe in ourselves. We just have to accept the moment when we are. What we did before is not enough. We have to do it even better, because we 'at the moment That we are.
“We have to embrace it and get much, much better, otherwise we will not be able to make it. But the good thing is that in this team and this club, if we believe enough in ourselves and if we believe enough 'we will win, we Can do anything.
“We have enough cans to do everything. But we have to believe in it.” Dias admitted that the players of the city had been destroyed on Tuesday after they had thrown away a 2-1 lead with another four minutes to play.
It was the newest capitulation in a crisis-found season for soon Premier League Champions City, with Dias who recognized their despair.
“We are angry about it and of course it is frustrating,” Dias said. “You can't let it go the way we did. We have to do better. It's as simple as that, because in the end we can say everything we want to say, but you can't allow it.
“I don't even know what to say. It's not easy to take, especially after the game we played. To let it go as we finally did, it's just very frustrating.”
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