We host the Bundesliga outfit at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday 11 April – with kick-off scheduled for 20:00 (UK) – before the side’s lock horns once again eight days later on 19 April.
Between the two fixtures, we face Leicester while Thomas Tuchel’s side play Hoffenheim, with the pair embroiled in respective title races in England and Germany.
Regardless, the boss is expecting to face a Bundesliga outfit looking to take an early advantage into the deciding tie at the Allianz Arena.
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“[In] my point of view, Bayern is not a team built to just think it is going to happen second leg, it’s built to come here to win,” he explained.
“From my experience when I was there, I had the feeling it doesn’t matter where you play, you have to be Bayern Munich and you have to try to win.
“If they defend maybe more than usual it’s because we’re doing well. But if we are not doing well we are going to defend more than usual.
“Not because I think the approach of Bayern Munich to sit back, defend 90 mins and make two or three transitions, and after we see what happens at the Allianz Arena. I don’t think so but at the same time I don’t know what’s going to happen.”
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Watch Guardiola‘s full pre-Bayern press conference in the video above!
