Pep Guardiola “would love to be in the position” of Arsenal within the Premier League title race, saying Manchester City’s “experience counts for nothing” as they appear to catch the Gunners.
City have received the Premier League in 4 of the final 5 seasons, however Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal aspect have loved a superb marketing campaign to give them an awesome probability of successful their first league title because the 2003-04 ‘Invincibles’ aspect.
The Citizens are taking part in catch-up with the Gunners holding an eight-point lead on the summit, and although City have a recreation in hand, Guardiola acknowledged his aspect’s huge expertise of successful titles will not be enough to overhaul the deficit.
“I would love to be in the position of Arsenal,” Guardiola advised reporters. “I’d want to be Arsenal within the Premier League than the place we now have.
“Eight factors is an actual benefit. Experience counts for nothing. They is not going to drop many factors.
“You have to prove it every day. The past is the past. [The] reality is people tomorrow don’t think about what you’ve done in the past. You have to show it again and again otherwise you have to retire.”
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City return from the worldwide break after they host Liverpool on the Etihad Stadium on Saturday, with the Reds sitting sixth after operating Guardiola’s males to inside some extent of the title final season.
Asked whether or not a collapse related to the one Liverpool have suffered might have occurred to City if he had left the Etihad, Guardiola insisted a drop-off of that magnitude might occur to any membership.
“I never think this won’t happen,” Guardiola mentioned. “Teams win the Premier League, 12 months after they drop off. [It] can occur to anybody, Liverpool, Chelsea.
“[You are] at all times going to strive to discover a answer to keep away from it. If you don’t do effectively it will possibly occur.
“What occurred with Liverpool can occur, I don’t know why it has not occurred to us.
“All I know is what you did yesterday doesn’t count for tomorrow.”
Guardiola feels the strain is barely ever a few defeats away, explaining: “I’ve lived a fairytale historical past right here in Manchester. We have received loads and that’s why the storm is much less. [But the] second we’ll lose, the storm will come.
“When you win it’s secure, comfy. When you lose, you will have to discover the answer, have to determine why you aren’t constant.
“When we didn’t win one, two, three games it’s normal. You can lose, figure out why it happened. [You cannot] always expect to win all the games for 10 years, it’s not the reality.”
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