Pep Guardiola, Manager of Manchester City, surprisingly claimed that his team “does not have the squad” to qualify for the Champions League of the next season.
Thanks to the competitive performance of English clubs in the three tournaments of UEFA this season – regardless of the city’s champions, the city exit before the 16th round – the top 5 of the Premier League are guaranteed for the first European Premier Club competition.
Despite this increased allocation, Guardiola has great doubts about the city’s qualifications – mainly because of the injured injuries that are littered with his squad.
“It is better to have five [places] Instead of four in the situation we have, Guardiola said media gathered on Friday. “But there are seven competitors, so it will last until the last moment.
“We don’t have the squad, we didn’t have the squad throughout the season. We have three defenders who played the final of the Champions League, and we will do a striker until the last games, so we don’t have the squad.”
Guardiola confirmed that Nathan Ake, John Stones and Manuel Akanji would stand on Saturday for the Premier League lunch with a royally form crystal palace from the Premier League-Lunch connection. Erling Haaland is also in the club’s treatment room with an ankle injury that does not keep him out of the dispute until mid -May.
“The players are still injured. It happened all the season. We have adapted. You can see it as a problem or as a challenge, you can see the position as a disaster, but it could be worse,” believed Guardiola.
“I am really satisfied with the way we dealt with the situation where we are. We have the chance to qualify for the Champions League.”
City sits in the last route of the campaign and sits sixth. You are a point of Chelsea in the fourth and fifth Newcastle United, who has the luxury of a game in hand.
Accordingly Opta The supercomputer, City is expected to be sneaking into the top 5 before completing the current campaign and a 50% chance of securing the qualification of the Champions League with Chelsea to miss it.
However, these three challengers also have to deal with late exposure to the quarter-finalists of the Champions League Aston Villa and a Liverpool-Topping-Fulham.