Guardiola is more than aware of the hectic schedule as we compete on three fronts.
He revealed that his team were so exhausted after the Champions League quarter-final game that there was not the usual enthusiastic and lively celebrations in the dressing room post-match.
For those reasons, he will keep a very close eye on the squad over the next 24 hours in the run-up to the Blades clash at Wembley although he also admitted his reluctance to make wholesale changes to the XI.
He said: “I have to see, I have to smell, I have to talk. I have to see how the players feel today.
“After the game in the locker room, they could not even celebrate because of how exhausted they were.
“They were incredibly satisfied. Happy to be in the semi-final of the Champions League for three years in a row. The people sit down, talk a little bit, start to dream, have regeneration drinks, use the phone, hug each other, listen to a bit of music.
“We didn’t dance. We didn’t take photos. We didn’t do anything special.
“We could not have more sequences of passes in Munich that help us rest with the ball. They run a lot.”
Looking ahead to his selection choices for the Blades clash at Wembley, the boss continued: “In previous seasons, I rotate a lot and it was not good. I have to think about it. I have many doubts about it.
“I have to see the training session today. I will see what is their feeling?
“Of course, they will tell me they want to play. That’s for sure. It is difficult to find players who don’t want to play.
“But at the same time you have to be sure the players are in the maximum conditions.
“We came from a lot of games, three days, four days. A lot of games and knowing if we lose we are out. The mental fatigue is always big. We have to see. We have to wait.
“The other side is it’s amazing to be here and we can reach a final.
“With this desire to still be in there, your fatigue converts in a positive way. In extra energy.
“The energy we don’t have right now, I think in many games, especially the last game in Munich, always it converts into something positive when you still have the desire to fight every game to be there.”
City, of course, are fighting in three competitions across 2022/23.
But Guardiola stressed he’s ‘not excited at all’ about talk of a City treble as we battle hard to win the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup – because we are ‘closer to not doing it than doing it’.
He added: “We will start to talk about the treble when you have won the Premier League, after you have won the FA Cup and for the final of the Champions League.
“Look how far away we are to start to talk about that. We are far away.
“I said many times, how many times in this amazing country, how many times a treble has been done? How many times? One.
“Our neighbours, they did it. In how many centuries?
“We are closer to not doing it than doing it. The best is to focus on if we have enough legs for tomorrow to compete against Sheffield United.”
