Though City won our Champions League quarter-final first leg 3-0, the boss says there are many areas where his team could have done better against the German champions.
He is well aware of the danger Bayern present but says going into the game to defend the first leg lead would be a mistake.
“Our mindset is to prepare for the game, watching the first leg and seeing things we can do better,” said Pep.
“We were focused a lot on what we have to do to try to not just control the game but punish them and try to score - of course we come to win the game.
“I don’t understand the logic to come here and defend; we come here to play a football game, 11 v 11 and do better than the opponent in this specific game.
“If you think about the result or the past it’s a mistake. We have to do our game and we prepare the game in that way.
“We’re going to defend for sure. It happened in Manchester; part of the game they were better, and we defended, and we will tomorrow.
“For us it’s an opportunity, if we play a game competing on history, we can’t play.
“You see the trophy cabinet in Europe and the amount of these type of games, it’s a lot, we are few.
“This is an opponent to prove ourselves - against one of the best in Europe and we’ll try to impose our game.
“We’ll try to do as much time as possible and have the game on our side, but the mindset is to try and win the game.
“It’s what you have to do in the game, focus and every single action what you have to do to get the best result and reach the semi-final.”
The boss was also asked about a comment he made several years ago that compared to the history of Bayern, City were teenagers and whether now that was more like approaching adult life?
“The history is there but we are playing against 11 and subs,” he said.
“We don’t play against what they’ve achieved - but when you have something like that, the belief is something special.
“It’s nice for us to challenge them and travel around Europe to play these teams and being there when one decade ago we watched on TV.
“It’s nice to be here and try to make the semi once again.
“This is our model. What do you do to achieve it, be yourself as much as possible and do your game as much as possible.”
BAYERN MUNICH V CITY
City visit Bayern Munich on Wednesday for the second leg of our Champions League quarter-final tie with kick-off at the Allianz Arena set for 20.00 (UK) and you can follow the game across mancity.com and our official app.
We will start live updates at 18:00 on our Matchday Centre and that will run throughout the evening.
Our Matchday Live programme will begin shortly before team news arrives at 18:45 (UK). Natalie Pike will be in the studio with Steve Howey, Shaun Goater and Steph Houghton to give you a City-centric view on events.
During the game, Alistair Mann and Michael Brown will talk you through proceedings with our radio commentary offering.
Afterwards, we will bring you all the reaction before short highlights and extended highlights are available from midnight on Thursday.
CITY+ subscribers can watch the entire 90 minutes back from midnight on Thursday.
