Pep Guardiola, Manager of Manchester City, did not give up hope in the search for the Champions League qualification, but admitted that his tired team could be supported by a campaign without the stress of European football.
Nottingham Forest was a valuable Premier League champion and condemned City for her ninth defeat in the season on Saturday with 1-0 winners at home, which corresponds to the club’s record for the defeats of the league during the glittering term of Guardiola. In fact, this balance of the top reversations is the common high-high-high-high high, which the Catalan trainer monitored in his entire career as a manager.
Chelsea’s shabby victory against Leicester City On Sunday the city came to fifth place. The top 5 of the Premier League will probably qualify for the Champions League of the next season, but the sixth places in Brighton will only be one point behind the Champions and Cace City next weekend.
“The qualification for the Champions League would be a great success, but you have to [earn] It “warned Guardiola after the defeat against the forest.” Whether there are five, six or seven [places] You have to win games.
“It wouldn’t be good [if City didn’t qualify] But I saw what happened to other Premier League teams in the past. It would be a problem not to be in the Champions League, but there are teams that have not qualified and who have come back now, and they are now there. “
Season – Club | League loss |
|---|---|
2019/20 – Man City | 9 |
2024/25 – Man City | 9* |
2016/17 – Man City | 6 |
2020/21 – Man City | 6 |
2008/09 – Barcelona | 5 |
2014/15 – Bayern Munich | 5 |
2022/23 – Man City | 5 |
2018/19 – Man City | 4 |
2011/12 – Barcelona | 3 |
2021/22 – Man City | 3 |
2023/24 – Man City | 3 |
2010/11 – Barcelona | 2 |
2013/14 – Bayern Munich | 2 |
2015/16 – Bayern Munich | 2 |
2017/18 – Man City | 2 |
2009/10 – Barcelona | 1 |
Chelsea attentively missed European football after a catastrophic campaign in 2015/16 before storming the top title the following season under Antonio Conte in Guardiola’s first Premier League season. Arsenal has returned to the Continental Elite after six years of drought and Aston Villa is currently enjoying her first Champions League campaign.
“How many years were Manchester City in the Champions League until February? Ten years? No, more than that. And before you never played in competition,” added Guardiola. “We are used to doing extraordinary things and we have to try to do it, but we wake up in the morning and try a good season next season.
“In Knockout games, details sometimes make the difference, but over 38 games in the Premier League if they are not able to be good enough in the first four or five. We have to continue in the next season, but we have ten games, it is still in our hands and we will try.”
Since Guardiola took over the first Barcelona team in 2008, it has never failed to qualify for Europe’s leading competition in Europe. However, this injury -related city side conveniently delivers the worst results of his coaching career. Never before has a Guardiola team ended a top season with a goal difference of less than 41 -the current balance of City is only 15.