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Rodri & Guardiola downbeat about City’s title chances Rodri and Pep Guardiola have insisted they’ll keep fighting in the Premier League title race, but it’s clear they both believe their chances are fading after more dropped points on Saturday. Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images After Arsenal’s last-minute win over Everton and Manchester City’s failure to defeat West Ham United, the gap at the top of the table is up to nine points. There’s still potential to close it, with City having a game in hand and a match at home to Arsenal in the final two months of the season.
But even wins in both of those fixtures would leave the Gunners with a three-point lead for the remaining games. After City’s draw with West Ham, Rodri was asked whether the title race is over now. “Maybe yes, maybe no,” Rodri said .
“We’re not going to drop hands, we’re going to keep fighting. We know it’s going to be difficult because we have this experience of what you need to win at the end. I think the distance is too far but we’re going to fight until the end.
” Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images Pep Guardiola was initially more emphatic that the title race remains on, but he proceeded to talk about City’s title chances in the past tense. “Nah, it’s not over,” Guardiola said to TNT Sports after the game. “We’ll continue.
We have an incredible team spirit, we fought after an incredible amount of effort in Madrid. Until the end, we continue. “We didn’t score enough goals (this season) when we had the quality to score.