MADRID, April 8-- Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola said his side would rather focus on Tuesday's game than past results when they play Real Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal on Tuesday night.

The reigning European champions travel to Madrid after each side has beaten the other once, with City beating Real Madrid 5-1 on aggregate last season, a year after Madrid knocked them out of the tournament a year earlier after a miraculous late comeback.

City will be without defenders Kyle Walker and Nathan Ake for the tie, and Guardiola said Croatian international Josko Gvardiol was also a doubt for the game, limiting his defensive options.

"What can I say? We will play with eleven men and we will look for solutions. It is true that Walker is the one who can best defend Vinicius (Jr), but unfortunately, we are having many injuries in this stretch, some of them returned injured from friendlies with their national teams," commented the Manchester City boss.

Guardiola also looked back on last year and said, he wasn't expecting a repeat performance.

"We got a good result here, it was a dangerous score, but we had a very important emotional level, which is why we came from the previous year. We had the previous year very present, but (this year) Carlo (Ancelotti) will look for alternatives, and so will I," he said.

"You don't know how difficult it is to be a good manager. How good and bad moments are managed, I will never consider that Carlo is a bad coach tactically."