FA CUP Glory will not save Manchester City’s disappointing season, insist Pep Guardiola
Pep Guardiola said winning the Armed Forces would not be enough to save Manchester City’s troubled season as they reached the final on the day Liverpool ended their reign as Premier League champions.
GuardianAnna was crowned English champions for the last four seasons, but their shameful form for most of this term delivered Liverpool chance to seal a 20th title equal to record.
Liverpool’s crowning was sealed with a 5-1 roads BY Tottenham This ended in almost the exact moment that full -time whistle burst into Wembley to signal cityS ‘ 2-0 wins excessive Nottingham forest In the FA Cup semifinal.
Rico Lewis scored after only 109 seconds before Josko Garddiol extended the city’s advantage in the second half.
The city will face Crystal In their third consecutive final of the FA Cup on May 17th.
Guardiola’s fourth country team is also on the course to qualify for the Champions League through a first completion in the Premier League.
But when the Spaniard was put in the Spanish that FA Cup Glory and the qualification of the Champions League would mark a “successful” campaign, he replied: “No, and I’ve said it many times.
“This season has not been good. We’re a thousand million points after Liverpool, so Come, this season has not been good.
“Look at the Champions League. How many matches have we won? One or two? And we’ve always been a car in this.
“We cannot confuse that the season has been good if we end up in the first five and qualify for the Champions League.
“The club must make decisions, the right ones, to make the next season better.”
City are 21 points behind Liverpool in the league and a clear point of Chelsea and Forest, who also have a game in hand, in the race for the top five places.
“Being in another final talks so much about the volume of players’ generation and this club. And we are very pleased to be in the finals,” Said Guardiola, who has won the Armed Cup twice in the reign of his city.
“But the season is determined by the Premier League, and being stable and this season could not happen.
“The most important thing is the qualification for the Champions League, and we have to be quiet now and recover.”
The city will be the favorites in the final after the 5-2 palace course at ETIHAD stadium earlier in April.
But Guardiola was amazed by Palace’s 3-0 victory over Aston Villa in the semifinals on Saturday and warned against excessive faith.
“We have four finals to play, and then an incredible game against the palace, and we saw yesterday how good they are,” He said.