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Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with our Privacy Notice. Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Sergio Aguero and Kevin De Bruyne travel as Pep Guardiola has taken a full-strength side to Paris for Manchester City's Champions League semi-final.
Guardiola earlier declared that everyone was “fit, ready, and happy” when asked to give a fitness and injury update, meaning Kevin De Bruyne came through the Carabao Cup final unscathed, and Sergio Aguero is fine after returning from the injury to make the bench at Wembley.
City had added a new youngster to their Champions League squad before the trip to the Parc Des Princes- under-18 captain Kwaku Oduroh – but no youngsters have travelled to France as the squad flew out from Manchester Airport on Tuesday afternoon.
Instead, it's effectively the same 23 players who took on Borussia Dortmund in Germany in the quarter-final second leg earlier this month – with Scott Carson replacing James Trafford as the third-choice goalkeeper. Carson, incredibly, is the only City squad member with a Champions League winner's medal, after being reserve goalkeeper with Liverpool in 2005.
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In his pre-match press conference, Guardiola urged his side to enjoy the experience of their semi-final, their first since 2015 and second ever.
He said: “All of us, as a manager in charge of this club we're grateful to give ourselves this opportunity to be there. When this club it's normal to be there every year like Barcelona and Madrid who have many Champions League. For us it's new and we're grateful to live it.
“We've looked at this group of players many years to be here. It's incredible, something new, so nice to go to Paris with all this kind of people.
“I learned from Johan Cruyff, you have to enjoy the game, enjoy the responsibility. Top players enjoy situations because they enjoy responsibility, that's why the greatest players win this competition because they play it like a friendly game.
“The mythical sentence one minute before the final in 1992 in Wembley was to go out and enjoy but I will not tell the players that, I'm not Johan Cruyff. But enjoy the travel, the coffee in their airport, the hotel, watching the other game tonight, the walk, the training. It's not about the moment, we're privileged to be one of the best four teams in Europe this season. It's what I want to see in my players.”
Man City travelling squad to face PSG: Ederson, Steffen, Carson, Ake, Laporte, Stones, Dias, Garcia, Walker, Cancelo, Zinchenko, Mendy, Fernandinho, Rodri, De Bruyne, Gundogan, Bernardo, Foden, Sterling, Mahrez, Torres, Jesus, Aguero.
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