Pep's City to 'suffer' heat in crunch Juve clash

ORLANDO -- Pep Guardiola has said his Manchester City players volition "suffer" successful the vigor erstwhile they look Juventus successful their Club World Cup decider successful Orlando connected Thursday.

The last Group G fixture volition footwear disconnected astatine 3 p.m. section clip astatine Camping World Stadium erstwhile temperatures are scheduled to scope 90 degrees.

City, who person been grooming successful Boca Raton, played their past crippled against Al Ain successful Atlanta's air-conditioned Mercedes-Benz Stadium, but the conditions successful Orlando volition beryllium overmuch different.

"The vigor is obvious," Guardiola told a quality league connected Wednesday. "We can't alteration it. It's amended to play astatine the Atlanta stadium, which is fantastic. All the teams person to grip it. The adjacent World Cup [in 2026], radical cognize it already. We person to beryllium acceptable to suffer.

"My proposal to the radical is to bring a batch of water, hats and towels for the necks due to the fact that I deliberation it's going to beryllium tough."

Guardiola has truthful acold picked 2 antithetic teams for the archetypal 2 games against Wydad AC and Al Ain.

Juventus contiguous the toughest trial successful the radical and City indispensable triumph to decorativeness apical and perchance debar Real Madrid successful the circular of 16.

But contempt having a batch riding connected the result, Guardiola said helium volition person to origin successful the vigor erstwhile helium makes his squad selection.

"We volition play caller players and besides successful the adjacent crippled excessively and successful the 2nd half," helium said. "The enactment has that successful mind. In these conditions we are not acceptable to play 90 minutes and astatine half-time we volition marque substitutions."

One subordinate not disposable is Claudio Echeverri. The 19-year-old was substituted astatine half-time against Al Ain and has been pictured connected crutches and wearing a protective boot.

"He has problems successful the ankle truthful 2 oregon 3 weeks out. I consciousness truthful atrocious for him." said Guardiola.