Pep Guardiola wants to stop talking about Arsenal
Pep Guardiola wants to stop talking about Arsenal Pep Guardiola believes Manchester City can’t waste time thinking about Arsenal’s results, because they still need to win every one of their games to control the title race. Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images Following Arsenal’s damaging home defeat to Bournemouth on Saturday, Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola will have been well aware that there’s an opening for his team in the Premier League title race now. If City win their two games in hand and beat Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium next weekend, they’d bridge the current nine-point gap to the league leaders.
Even if Arsenal win every other game for the remainder of the season, City could still win the league on goal difference. The Gunners have a goal difference lead of six (+38 vs +32), but that could be eaten up by the games in hand and the match between the two teams. Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images Yet in his pre-Chelsea press conference on Saturday, Guardiola suggested City can’t afford to think about what Arsenal are doing, because they still need to win all of their own games.
“Talking about Arsenal, Arsenal, Arsenal,” Guardiola began . “But if we don’t win at Stamford Bridge, not an easy place to go, maybe we don’t need to make the press conference before Arsenal because it will be over. “Everybody knows it.
You know it, I know it, the players know it, everybody knows it in England. “How many games left? We have to win all of them, all.
Not one draw? No. Forget about it.