Manchester City are Champions League teenagers, says Guardiola

Pep Guardiola has described Manchester City as Champions League teenagers and warns they cannot take their place in the quarter-finals for granted ahead of Tuesday s game with Schalke.

City hold a 3-2 lead from the first leg of the last 16 and are expected to progress against a side who sit 14th in the Bundesliga and lost 4-2 to Werder Bremen last Friday.

Despite their impressive domestic success since the Abu Dhabi-backed takeover in 2008, City have yet to progress beyond the semi-final stage in Europe s elite competition and Guardiola has suggested previously that they are not ready to win it.

Speaking on Monday, he conceded they are a long way from matching the continental success of the likes of Liverpool and Manchester United, who have eight titles between t…