3 min learnApr 11, 2026 01:25 AM IST
Pep Guardiola mentioned on Friday that an inconsistent Manchester Metropolis have little room for error within the Premier League title race, regardless of a status for sturdy late-season finishes that has delivered six titles throughout his near-decade on the membership.
Metropolis have 61 factors from 30 matches and path leaders Arsenal by 9 factors, though they maintain a sport in hand.
The title challengers now face a demanding stretch of fixtures, starting with Sunday’s journey to Chelsea, adopted by a house conflict in opposition to Arsenal on April 19.
“Hopefully we will get loads of factors,” Guardiola advised reporters when requested about his facet’s normal late-season surge.
“Within the state of affairs we’re within the Premier League, we have to win all of them, in any other case it is not going to give us the possibility to strive till the top.
“Now we have not been constant sufficient this season. Now we have dropped factors that we must always have taken, which is why we at the moment are within the place the place we can’t do something in another way.”
Metropolis’s problem is sophisticated by accidents, with centre again Ruben Dias nonetheless recovering from a muscle drawback and never prepared for the Stamford Bridge journey.
Fellow defender Josko Gvardiol can be unavailable, having been sidelined since January with a tibial fracture to his proper leg, and isn’t but near a return.
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Guardiola was additionally requested about midfielder Bernardo Silva after assistant supervisor Pep Lijnders hinted on Sunday that the Portuguese worldwide’s nine-year keep on the membership may finish this summer season.
Silva, 31, has gained six Premier League titles and the Champions League since becoming a member of Metropolis in 2017 from AS Monaco, however his contract expires on the finish of the season.
Guardiola mentioned he didn’t know whether or not Silva would depart however made clear his need to maintain him on the membership.
“He isn’t the tallest one, essentially the most muscular one, or the man who scores 50 targets or makes 50 assists a season,” Guardiola mentioned. “These are the forms of gamers that get the highlight. However after 9 years, I do know him fairly nicely and I do know what a supervisor requires.
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“All managers love him as a result of he’s extremely aggressive and has a fireplace inside him. Within the hardest moments and on the largest phases, he’s at all times there.
“He has been an unbelievable signing for us. I really like this membership and I’d love for him to remain and end his profession right here, however I have no idea. He’ll resolve what he’ll resolve. It’s his choice.”