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Pep Guardiola has admitted that Manchester City still don't have the "special" ingredients required to win the Champions League.

The competition remains City's holy grail while Guardiola hasn't won the Champions League since 2011 when he was Barcelona boss.

He remains on a mission to win the biggest prize in football and has urged fans to show more support and get behind his team if the ultimate goal is to be achieved.

Guardiola has taken a veiled swipe at fans and is convinced he is not feeling the desire required from supporters who continue to boo the Champions League anthem and fail to fill the Etihad for European games.

Guardiola, whose side face Shakhtar Donetsk in Khakiv needing a win to boost their chances of reaching the knockout stages, said: "To win this competition, it's not enough just to have desire, or wanting to win. You have to have many circusmstances.

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"You have to have experience and still we don't have enough in some moments. But every game is a new experience.

"That's not enough that the manager wants to win it. It's not just the players. You have to have the desire, the club, chairman, owner, the fans, everyone has to push to be closer, to achieve the next stage.

"When it happens, everyone will feel it. It's one important thing to win this kind of title, but you have to be pushed, not just by the manager, by everyone surrounding Manchester City that we have to win it - and still we don't have that feeling.

"The feeling that the fans are pushing, that we have to win the Champions League.

"Normally what happens is you get closer, that's why I feel we are a really good team, it's a pleasure to work with them. But in this competition you need something special - and still I don't feel it."

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Guardiola insists winning the Champions League is in his blood having been born in Barcelona - and will never give up trying to be the best in Europe no matter where he works.

He added: "I was born in Barcelona and grew up there. I started to play there. Then when you start to play they inoculate it into your blood and body that the only way to survive is to win.

"But also i learned that when you don't, life goes on and you have another chance the next season.

"So we'll put more efforts into winning this competition. I saw last season and this that in many ways the club, we are still not ready to win it. That doesn't mean we are not going to try.

"Every year we'll be closer and sooner or later it's going to happen. Hopefully as soon as possible."

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Predicted teams

Shakhtar: Pyatov; Butko, Rakitskky, Kryvtsov, Matviienko; Stepanenko, Patrick, Marlos, Maycon, Ismailly; Moraes.

Man City: Ederson; Walker, Stones, Laporte, Zinchenko; Fernandinho, D Silva, De Bruyne; Sterling, Aguero, Sane.