Guardiola: We’ll need the whole squad

Guardiola: We’ll need the whole squad

Pep Guardiola says every City player will have a role to play in the final weeks of the season.

City have five Premier League games and an FA Cup final remaining, with the Blues still in with a shout of completing a domestic treble.

With eight days before our next assignment, we’ll then squeeze all of those fixtures into an intense 21-day period.

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Having shuffled the pack for Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final victory over Southampton, Guardiola is keen to make sure all of his players are ready to go as we push for yet more silverware.

“That’s why I need them,” he said when asked about the schedule.

“The last weeks playing regularly the same team, we need the squad. We need all of them. Being better or worse doesn’t matter, we will need it.

“With this amount of games every three days with the same players will not be possible.

“We have to manage good substitutions and everybody has to make a step forward. I will demand more and more and this is what we have to do.”

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We made eight changes to the starting lineup at Wembley, with the likes of experienced figures John Stones and Nathan Ake coming into a team that’s been in fine form in recent weeks.

While several of the players who featured at Wembley haven’t been at the centre of things in the spring, Guardiola said there was never any doubt about their ability to fit seamlessly into that clash.