Guardiola celebrates victory, but keeps his feet on the ground: “We’ll see”

This Wednesday, the 26th, the manchester city ran over the Arsenal for the 33rd round of Premier League. The confrontation took place in Etihad Stadium and ended with the score of 4 to 1 in favor of the Citizens. Therefore, the team led by Pep Guardiola shortened the gap to just two points for the leader of the competition.

However, City are two matches behind in the league and, if they win two, they can open a four-point lead at the top. After the rout over Arsenal, Pep Guardiola opened the game about his team’s moment and reiterated the importance of the next matches for the Premier League.

“The next three games are very important. Fulham on Sunday, what Marco Silva did is unbelievable, after two home games against West Ham and Leeds, these three games will dictate.”, said the Spanish coach. Among these clashes mentioned, only against the West Ham it is a delayed commitment, valid for the 28th round of the competition.

Regarding City’s victory and performance, Guardiola melted for Haaland, who scored a goal and distributed two assists in the match. “Erling (Haaland) is an incredible threat… in a previous season with a false nine we played very differently, but his connection with Kevin (De Bruyne) is extraordinary and today we try to use that as much as possible”he said.

Finally, Pep Guardiola was not dazzled by the victory against the leader, even with a forward trajectory, he kept his feet on the ground. “The reality is that we are behind Arsenal, they are two points ahead of us, game by game, we’ll see what happens”concluded the coach of Manchester City.