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(Reuters) – Manchester City players are exhausted ahead of their FA Cup semi-final against Sheffield United at Wembley this weekend, manager Pep Guardiola said, after his side knocked Bayern Munich out of the Champions League on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

City’s 1-1 draw with Bayern in their quarter-final second leg secured a 4-1 win on aggregate that assured them a semi-final spot in Europe’s elite club competition for a third successive season. <\/p>\n

They will face Real Madrid in the last four. <\/p>\n

Guardiola’s side are also in the hunt for the Premier League title, sitting four points behind leaders Arsenal with a game in hand.<\/p>\n

“The team is exhausted, so I don’t know how we are going to recover to play against Sheffield United because we play on Saturday,” Guardiola told BT Sport.<\/p>\n

“It’s so demanding, so I don’t know how we will arrive because now is a tough moment for the game on Saturday.”<\/p>\n

Guardiola said defender Nathan Ake would undergo tests later on Thursday to check the extent of a suspected hamstring injury after he was taken off in the second half against Bayern. <\/p>\n

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(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n

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