Manchester City face Newcastle at 8pm on Saturday in the Premier League, less than 72 hours since they were in Super Cup action.
Pep Guardiola says Manchester City need their fans to help them over the line this weekend as he turned his frustration away from the scheduling of City's Premier League clash with Newcastle.
And Guardiola says that City will deal with the situation, but need their fans to get behind the team on the first return to the Etihad since the Blues lifted the FA Cup, Champions League and UEFA Super Cup."Of course we are ready. Of course," he said. "We need these type of challenges. Everyone wants to beat us and we need these difficulties for many reasons, many important injuries, the calendar to play with short recovery.
"Tomorrow we need the Etihad Stadium full. Stay with us, please, we are not in our best moment. Stay there in the bad moments. We need their support. It’s the first time we’re together since the FA Cup final vs [Manchester] United and Champions League final vs Inter Milan. Against Sevilla. Hopefully we can celebrate together during the game.
"Okay, we accept that this is the challenge. It’s why we won: we overcome these kinds of positions in winter. We always had less time to recover between games in Boxing Day. A physical team is Newcastle, we have to be careful. This defines the big teams. When everything is comfortable this is not the point. When we play in Newcastle this cannot happen but we play at home. At home I want to see our crowd making a lot of noise. We need them more than ever.
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