Barca will face their former striker Ibrahimovic, who left Nou Camp on bad terms at the end of the 2009/10 season, as they visit the Serie A champions for their Champions League quarter-final first leg on Wednesday, the outstanding tie of the round.
"We have to deactivate Ibra and Milan by monopolising possession of the ball," said Guardiola. He is a very strong player especially in the air. He is unstoppable if he participates a lot in the match.
"We owe him part of a league title. His first six months [at Barcelona] were very good."
"I still haven't got an answer as to what the problem was," he said shortly afterwards. "It can't have been the quality [of my football] because there was never a discussion about the football part."
"The only certainty is that if you don't play too good games, you don't go to the semi-finals," he said. "I expect the best possible Milan team in one of the world's great stadiums."
"I try to transmit to the players the message that they must not let up after winning so much. I wouldn't want us to betray ourselves, knowing that we could be knocked out as a result."
