EPL: Guardiola Says Man City Are Out Of Title Race
Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola has said his side are out of the English Premier League title race after Sunday’s 4-0 defeat to Everton at Goodison Park.
The Citizens have now lost four of their last eight league games, leaving them 10 points behind leaders Chelsea.
Romelu Lukaku and Kevin Mirallas put Everton firmly in control in the opening 46 minutes, before teenagers Tom Davies and Ademola Lookman, with their first goals for the club, completed the rout. The result was Guardiola’s heaviest defeat in his managerial career.
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Speaking in an interview with the BBC on Sunday, the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager said the title is already beyond City, adding that he had told his players to “forget the table” until the end of the season.
When asked if the distance between his side and the top of the table, he said: “Yes. Ten is a lot of points.”
“The first one is a 10-point gap and that is a lot of course.
“The second one is three points, so we have to see. I spoke with the players for the last three weeks to forget about the table. Focus on the next game and do our best.
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“After that, at the end of the season, we’ll analyse how our level was, our performance, the coach, the players. After we are going to decide.”
The 45-year-old reiterated his desire to succeed in the Premier League.
“I’m so happy in Manchester,” he said. “Of course I prefer to win than lose but I’m so happy with the way I’m trying to do the best as possible to achieve what I think is the best way to play.
“When we beat Crystal Palace and Burnley I was so happy but that was not the way I wanted to play. We couldn’t make three or four passes. We were so lucky.”
