Thread by @ManCity

🚨 PRESS CONFERENCE 🚨

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PEP 💬 The first leg we played in Madrid, the second leg we play at home. It’s a normal situation.

It’s not about advantage. It is what it is. In knockout games it’s one at home and one away.

PEP 💬 Well I think in the next season (VAR) will be better. It's only the first season (with it). You will have to ask the people in charge. I am not a specialist in this kind of situation. I don’t know if they will admit the reality. Ask them not me.

PEP 💬 We had some (physical) problems. After two or three games in a row. That's why we rotate the team. We have to arrive in the best condition possible for Arsenal and Real Madrid. At the same time, the best way to be ready is play our games, with the rhythm.

PEP 💬 There are players that are only happy when they play and when they don’t play they make you feel they are not happy and they behave like a little child and @BernardoCSilva is absolutely the opposite, he is a mature man.

PEP 💬 (@Mahrez22 is an) incredible player. He is a fantastic player with incredible self confidence. He is a guy who always creates something special. We are delighted to have him. He can help us when he does and doesn’t play. Hopefully I can improve him.

🚨 PRESS CONFERENCE PART TWO 🚨

PEP 💬 I rotate the team a lot. The last away game at Southampton @DeBruyneKev didn't play, then he came back at an incredible level in the Newcastle game.

I try all the players to play a lot of minutes when we come back (from lockdown).

PEP 💬 @gabrieljesus9 has to live with pressure, what’s important is what he does when he misses, he doesn't hide - he tries again and again.

He has to live with this pressure as he is a striker and has to score goals.

This is normal at big clubs all around world.