Pep Guardiola has cautioned his Manchester City players that Manchester United stays as a live danger in the Premier League title race.
Numerous spectators have effectively delegated City champions and they stay 11 points clear at the highest point of the standings regardless of their 2-0 derby rout on Sunday. City are currently entering their last 10 matches of the league and host Southampton in the first of those on Wednesday.
Southampton have lost eight of their previous nine Premier League away games against City, with an attract the other game, however, Guardiola is underestimating nothing regarding that record or the title race.
Gotten some information about United getting an opportunity of winning the title, Guardiola – who has each player fit – answered: “obviously. At the point when the choice is open, anything can occur in football.”
Guardiola further added: “Nobody thought we would do 21 games in a row, so anything can happen. United can do it.
We have 10 games left and we have to win six or seven to be champions mathematically. On Wednesday we are going to try to win the first one. I think everyone has realized how difficult it is to win games – with the Premier League, it’s so complicated, so difficult. Sometimes it’s good to realize what we have done and what we have to do. We are alive in all competitions and now the important part of the season arrives.”
Southampton are fourteenth in the table, with Guardiola unmoved by whether or not City could win 9-0, which Leicester City and United have done against Saints under Ralph Hasenhuttl.
In a here and there season for Southampton, they have won their past two games against groups who were sitting top of the table. They crushed Everton 2-0 in October when Carlo Ancelotti’s men were establishing the tone and Liverpool 1-0 in January before Jurgen Klopp’s heroes had set out on their new breakdown.
For City, the United loss was their first in quite a while altogether rivalries and the first occasion when they have yielded more than once in a match since their 2-0 loss against Tottenham in November.
Guardiola has never lost consecutive home games in his administrative profession.
