Pep Guardiola has been speaking to the media before Manchester City's final Champions League group game against Red Star Belgrade on Wednesday.

Here are the key lines from his news conference:

• Guardiola confirmed that Erling Haaland, who missed the win over Luton at the weekend with a foot injury, "will be back Thursday" and they will "see how he feels".

• He added he couldn't give a timescale, but that "next press conference can be more precise on his condition".

• Asked whether form this season had showed what Kevin de Bruyne brings to the side, he said: "Of course I'd prefer Kevin is with us. Of course we need him, but since he is not back you have to handle the situation with the players we have."

• He said they had "stable positions" with De Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan and Rodri in midfield last season, but that they must "adapt", adding: "But I have the feeling so far is good, we don't drop too much [without them]. My feeling is good this season."

• He added: "But, we have standards, we lost one game in six or seven so it's a big disaster. The others we draw but perform really well."

• On whether he is happy with performances despite results, he said: "Yes I'm happy, could be better could be worse, just a question of not having a good result and to take positive of things. Like last weekend, analyse what we can do better. Managers have to balance, not so excited when winning not so depressed when not."

• Manchester City could win all six group games, whether that is extra motivation, Guardiola said: "When you think about this thing it is a question of trying to do the game, trying to perform well, prepare the game to win it."

• On whether the match is a good opportunity to experiment, he said: "No we don't experiment, we analyse the opponent to try and win the game. We will switch some players but that is after three days and lots of travelling. I'm pleased that tomorrow we will get to see some players we haven't seen so much."

• He added: "The pressure has to be there for ourselves, when you come here to take points to try and qualify it is different. I don't like this part of the group stage when you are playing away. Luckily we are coming here having already qualified."

Man Utd 0-1 Bayern Munich: How United's worst-ever Champions League campaign unfolded

Manchester United's return to the Champions League was part of the body of work that suggested Erik ten Hag was the transformative figure who had blown the cobwebs away from a dilapidated Old Trafford.

It was meant to be proof that United were back where they belonged after the missteps and misery of Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho - even though he won the League Cup and Europa League - and latterly Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

Ten Hag even had tangible success with a League Cup win in his first season, but if this wretched Champions League campaign has been any measure of the current status of Manchester United and their manager, the great transformer is now closer to being a busted flush.

This has been a shocking campaign, a chastening dose of cold reality that saw United finish bottom of a group they would have welcomed when the draw was made, fourth behind Bayern Munich, FC Copenhagen and Galatasaray.

The Champions League is the most unforgiving of environments. Every United flaw, and they are certainly not short of them, has been brutally exposed from the start.

And it all ended in the most timid of circumstances, a United side who should have come out swinging losing 1-0 to a Bayern side with nothing to play for, Ten Hag's players mustering a mere one shot on target in the process.

It was all a far cry from the Old Trafford nights of old when supporters were glued to their seats until the final whistle sounded.

Thousands of United fans had given up and left long before the end here and who could blame them?

'United's Champions League comeback has been a shambles'

The statistics damn United and underline the lack of organisation, tactical acumen, nous and basic quality that have characterised their Champions League return and most of their season.

United's four points from six games is their lowest in any Champions League campaign, while the 15 goals conceded is the most by a Premier League side in any group stage of the competition.

All manner of inquests into this dismal failure can be conducted, but the bottom line is this Manchester United side are not fit for the purpose of success - a problem exacerbated by an uncanny knack of blasting themselves in both feet at the worst possible time.

Goalkeeper Andre Onana has had a nightmare campaign, at fault in the 4-3 loss away to Bayern, poor in the home defeat against Galatasaray then quite simply awful in the 3-3 draw with the Turkish side in Istanbul, gifting Hakim Ziyech two goals from routine free-kicks. That was a result that ensured even victory here against Bayern might not have been enough for United.

As it was, United never even threatened to keep their own side of the bargain.

Few tears were shed when goalkeeper David de Gea left United after 12 years last summer, but Onana has done nothing to suggest the Spaniard has been adequately replaced.

United held a two-goal lead before losing 4-3 in Copenhagen and twice held a similar advantage before sharing the points when visiting Galatasaray.

There was a lack of discipline as Marcus Rashford was sent off with United 2-0 up in Denmark, the inexplicable catalyst for a collapse from a position of control to another damaging defeat.

All in all, United's Champions League comeback has been a shambles.

Old rivals Bayern put them out of their misery. In reality, United's Champions League return was probably washed up even before a ball was kicked on a miserable, forgettable occasion.

Bayern didn't even have to break sweat

On a night when United needed to at least show a willing to save themselves, they managed five shots in all. Five shots on a night when victory was a must.

Yes, a first-half groin injury for captain Harry Maguire and a hamstring problem that meant Luke Shaw could not come out for the second half hampered their efforts, but there can be no excuses. This is a desperately poor team when set against the standards Manchester United aspire to.

This was not even a classic Bayern side. Good but not great - certainly not a team you would risk a huge amount on in terms of them winning the Champions League.

Bayern, however, were still able to deal with United without breaking sweat in a game that was actually neither here nor there for Thomas Tuchel's team. You were left with the impression that if there had suddenly been something riding on this for the Bundesliga champions they would have been able to slip through the gears and dismiss United without too much fuss.

If there were any flashes of pace and urgency, they actually came from the side that did not even need to show it.

The home fans were remarkably patient given the meagre fare on offer. The jeers at the final whistle were more in resignation than anger.

United have proved a few things throughout this ill-fated campaign. None of them good.

Finishing bottom of the group 'the right outcome'

Manchester United have proved that for now they do not belong in this elite company. Their final position in Group A does not do them a disservice. It is the right outcome. They proved the likes of Bayern, Manchester City and Real Madrid are out of their league.

And at the heart of it all is Ten Hag, facing an increasing struggle to tame this unwieldy football beast, looking more and more like a manager who is sinking, scrambling to make sense of how those slivers of optimism from last season have been so quickly replaced by despair and despondency.

Ten Hag must seek improvement in another unforgiving environment, at Anfield on Sunday against Premier League leaders Liverpool, who inflicted a historic 7-0 thrashing on United last season.

And he will almost certainly have to do it without the injured Shaw and Maguire, along with injured captain Bruno Fernandes.

If United hoped coming back to the Champions League stage would offer confirmation that they were edging back towards the top table, the fact they were not even good enough to secure the safety net of consolation offered up by the Europa League tells them exactly where they actually stand.

Declan Rice offers Mikel Arteta ‘Plan B’ in hope of avoiding fresh title collapse

It is a measure of Arsenal’s success in this season’s Champions League that their trip to Eindhoven was such a strange one. Mikel Arteta’s side required only five games to guarantee top spot in Group B, which meant that their sixth was little more than a chance for the Arsenal manager to experiment with his side.

A glorified training session? Perhaps. But that does not mean it was not worthwhile. Arteta used it as an opportunity to provide opportunities to the fringe players in his squad, to see who might propel themselves into contention. He also used it to try something new: Declan Rice, the £105 million midfielder, played most of the second half in the centre of defence.

Rice has played at the back before, in his early days at West Ham United. A long time has passed since then, though, and he is certainly not considered a defender any more.

Perhaps it was an indication, then, of Arteta’s Plan B – which we might also refer to as the ‘no-Saliba plan’. The loss of William Saliba to injury last season proved fatal to Arsenal’s title hopes. Is it possible that, if such a situation were to happen again, Rice would be the man to step in?

“We have to try,” said Arteta. “If we have an emergency we have to understand and be sure we can fill that gap in the right way. He has a lot of composure on the ball, he wins a lot of duels and he has done it in the past. He is a good option.”

Rice certainly has the required physical strength to play in the heart of defence. He also has the passing range to start moves from that position. But can he do it in a ferociously competitive fixture? And how much would Arsenal miss him in midfield if he was to relocate in times of crisis?

These are questions for Arteta, and indeed the Arsenal supporters, to ponder. Another one on the lips of the travelling fans concerned the academy players on the bench: why did Ethan Nwaneri, Lino Sousa and Reuell Walters not see any action in a match of such little consequence?

“I did not think it was the right moment,” said Arteta. “I wanted to see how the game developed but it was too much, I think, for them.”

The scoreline clearly played a part in Arteta’s refusal to turn to youth. The Spaniard is a winner and he wanted to win this, despite the strange circumstances. In the end he had to settle for a draw, as Eddie Nketiah’s first-half effort was cancelled out by a fine strike by PSV’s Yorbe Vertessen.

Nketiah’s role is usually that of an impact player but his best football almost always comes as a starter. This was his 12th start of the campaign, and his first-half opener was his fifth goal in those games. As a substitute, he has scored only once.

Some players simply need to feel the rhythm of the game, to adjust to its flows, before producing their finest work. Perhaps Nketiah is one of those, although he would object to suggestions that he cannot help the team from the bench.

What is certain is that Nketiah is one of the best finishers at Arsenal, which he demonstrated with his precise strike after 42 minutes. He had been spotted by the lively Reiss Nelson, another Arsenal academy graduate who lives the life of a back-up player.

It was a fine goal, nicely created and expertly converted, but Arteta’s side were fortunate that they had not already conceded at the other end. PSV have won 15 out of 15 games in the Dutch Eredivisie this season and they attacked with pace in the first half.

Vertessen and Johan Bakayoko went close in the early exchanges, when Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale was grateful for excellent blocks by both Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes.

The presence of Saliba and Gabriel in the starting line-up would have been a source of considerable angst for many in the away end. Arteta is already short of defensive options and the thought of losing either of those two must have been a terrifying one for those of an Arsenal persuasion.

PSV, who might have felt a little hard done by at the break, showed renewed purpose at the beginning of the second half. Vertessen galloped away from Cedric Soares and curled his effort beyond the reach of Ramsdale.

Rice arrived after an hour, replacing Saliba, and trotted straight into the centre of defence. His first few minutes there were challenging — he was turned by Ismael Saibari, who struck the post — but overall he looked comfortable.

Time will tell whether he will be needed there again, and whether the plan might work in tougher fixtures.