My feeling today is that we will win the Premier League: Pep Guardiola
City next take on Aston Villa in an away match and they will enter the match on the back of three consecutive draws in the English Premier League.
Manchester, December 5: Manchester City leader Pep Guardiola is firmly convinced that the Blues of Manchester will win the EPL title for the fourth time in a row this season, something no other English team has achieved.
City next take on Aston Villa in an away match and they will enter the match on the back of three consecutive draws in the English Premier League.
Guardiola addressed the media at the pre-match press conference on Tuesday as he accepted the need for his side to concede fewer chances and stressed that, based on what he saw and felt, he backed City to go ahead and create a historic fourth title in a row. .
“My feeling today is that we are going to win the Premier League. People don’t believe it after three draws, but we’re going to do it again. If you ask me today. If we play at the level of Liverpool or Tottenham, we will do it again, knowing that it is not easy. No team has done this yet. That is the difficulty, but if you ask me today how we feel, we will do it again,” Guardiola said on the club’s official website.
A pulsating 4-4 affair at Chelsea a fortnight ago was followed by a 1-1 stalemate at home to Liverpool, before the champions and Spurs shared the Etihad spoils on Sunday after a thrilling, incident-filled 3-3 draw.
But while accepting that he was concerned about the goals, the City boss also stressed that City were generally giving fewer chances to the opposition.
“I’m worried about conceding goals, yes, of course I’m worried. But I say that the average of chances conceded is lower, apart from (the) Chelsea (match). The rest of the matches are at the same level as the previous seasons when we won a lot of titles,” he said.
“The rest of the games are quite similar, I would even say the odds are even lower than last year, but yes, we are conceding a lot of goals. We have to get better and it’s hard to keep that up. We don’t have many chances to concede and hopefully we can continue with that,” he added.
(With inputs from IANS)