Guardiola’s side face Tottenham twice at home this week before taking on Manchester United at Old Trafford next week IAN KINGTON/AFP/Getty ImagesPep Guardiola has called on Manchester City’s supporters to finally embrace Europe’s top competition in tomorrow night’s Champions League quarter-final second leg with Tottenham Hotspur as they enter a week that will decide his and City’s destiny this season. The club have had a chequered relationship with the Champions League having fallen foul of Uefa’s financial fair play regulations. Guardiola himself, twice a winner of the competition when in charge of Barcelona, has a complicated outlook towards Europe’s elite competition, sarcastically admitting that he is a “failure” for not winning it more often, while also insisting the Premier League represents his primary target. Yet there is no denying Guardiola’s desire to overturn the 1-0 first leg deficit against Spurs tomorrow and the role he believes…

Source: The Times April 16, 2019 16:14 UTC