Pep Guardiola says Manchester City need to be better despite win at Real Madrid

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Pep Guardiola believes his Manchester City team will have to improve to win the Champions League despite recording a memorable victory at Real Madrid.City stunned the Spanish giants at the Bernabeu on Wednesday – and heaped the pressure on under-fire Real boss Xabi Alonso – as they came from behind to win a compelling encounter 2-1.

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00:00Good experience for us being here for many new players coming for the first time in this stadium.

00:10Everybody feels the pressure to do it and will be a good lesson for the future

00:18because that level is not required enough to compete until last stages,

00:23but maybe in February will be better than today.

00:26I've been here many times in these last five years. We've played many battles against them

00:30and we've played much, much better than today and we didn't win.

00:35So this is the reality.

00:37Don't misunderstand me. Winning Bernabeu is a big, big task.

00:41Really, really, really big task, especially in this competition in the Champions League.

00:44Don't misunderstand me.

00:46But at the same time, I don't know, in February or March,

00:51we are able to go through the level to arrive really, really semifinals,

00:57finals require better performance than today. That's for sure.

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