Guardiola: City must adapt to artificial pitch!

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola hopes his players can quickly adapt to the artificial pitch they will use for their Champions League clash in Switzerland. The holders will play on unfamiliar terrain in their latest Champions League outing on Wednesday when they take on Young Boys on their synthetic pitch at the Wankdorf Stadium. Guardiola insists there are no complaints on his part, and he has changed his team's routine to ensure they are prepared. Normally City do not take up the option available to them of training at the stadium when they play away games in Europe, instead preferring to work in Manchester before travelling. Pep Guardiola accepts Manchester City must adapt to the artificial surface they face in Switzerland this week — but claims "common sense" dictates grass is better. The holders will play on unfamiliar terrain in their latest Champions League outing on Wednesday when they take on Young Boys on their synthetic pitch at the Wankdorf Stadium. Guardiola insists there are no complaints on his part, and he has changed his team's routine to ensure they are prepared. Normally City do not take up the option available to them of training at the stadium when they play away games in Europe, instead preferring to work in Manchester before travelling. However, on this occasion, City flew to Bern on Tuesday morning and had a run out on the pitch in the evening. Yet the City manager could not hide the feeling that he would prefer to be playing on a natural surface. Speaking at a press conference, the Spaniard said: "It is what it is. If Uefa allows games to be played here it's because it's in good condition."That's one of the reasons we never train away but this is an exception. This is why we travel in the morning for the players to feel how the ball runs, and how to move left, right, backwards, and forwards. That's why.
"We'll try it and the players will know it immediately."