JAKARTA - Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola sees City's desire for the current Champions League title as superior compared to experience as they travel to their first final of the competition against Chelsea on Saturday, May 29.
A decade of huge investment by Abu Dhabi-based City has paid off with five Premier League titles, three of which have been picked since Guardiola arrived in Manchester five years ago, including the season that has just ended.
But the Champions League has slipped out of the hands of City and Guardiola since he won his last two European club supremacy trophies as coach at Barcelona in 2011.
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"Sometimes you need time. The most important thing is the way we reached the final. We will play to win the game," Guardiola said as reported by AFP on Monday.
"Sometimes clubs need more finals to win one game, others only need one chance to become champions. Hopefully, that's what happens."
"This club is new in many ways. But in this period we won consecutive titles for the first time. We broke a lot of records. We also reached the final for the first time."
"As a club and an organization, we are not too old in terms of age. But in terms of how satisfied and happy, we are to be there (of the Champions League final), no one can beat us in that regard."
The city has not even made it to the quarter-finals of the Champions League under Guardiola.
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