“Because of Eurovision”: Pep is angry about the schedule

Manchester City will try to continue their journey towards the treble, when they host Everton at Goodison Park on Sunday (18:00 Israel time). The match will be held very close to the second leg in the semi-finals of the Champions League against Real Madrid (Wednesday, 22:00 Israel time), after the 1:1 draw between the two at the Santiago Bernabeu.

This angered City manager Pep Guardiola, who revealed that the Eurovision final competition, which will be held tonight in Liverpool, is the cause of the postponement. “We are playing in the first one because of Eurovision or something like that. They don’t have too many security personnel to secure these two events on the same day. I don’t understand it, but I’m not going to fight it anymore.”

“There are four more games to the end of the season and it is very important that we continue to keep our destiny in our hands,” added the manager of the English champions, “We work for 11 months in the Premier League and we don’t have much time to prepare for Madrid. The focus is solely on Everton.” By the way, Nevto Ake, defender-brake of Manchester City, is still in doubt for the game due to injury.

On the eve of the 36th round in the Premier League, City is ranked first with a point advantage over Arsenal and a game in hand. On the other hand, Everton is in tangible danger of relegation with 2 points above the red line.