Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola wants his players to remind Brighton of who they are as a team.
The Sky Blues will try and bounce back from Saturday's FA Cup semi-final loss to Liverpool by beating Brighton at the Etihad on Wednesday.
Asked the response he wanted to set from his players, Guardiola told a pre-match press conference: "Let them remember who we are as a team - this is the key point.
"I would say here, reaching the FA Cup semi and trying to reach the final, it's in the past.
"I have the ability to forget immediately after one night the defeats and victories, so quick. Think of the next one so quickly. I am hungry enough.
"And I said to the players we don't play seven finals (in the league). We play just one. To reach to play the next one until the seventh
"Here they (the players) are exceptional. Fernandinho, the pride with Bernardo in the middle and at 2-0 down how they pressed and how the central defenders were with the risk in behind.
"We played an exceptional team. We lost. Now the next one is Brighton.
"I always have to remember the specific things to get back on track but I know my team and I know when we have a series of games after games, there are moments they are human beings."
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