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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has warned that defeating Chelsea at Stamford Bridge will be crucial to keeping their title hopes alive.
Speaking after Arsenal’s screw-up at Bournemouth, Guardiola stated that their upcoming clash with the Gunners will mean nothing if they don’t beat Chelsea.
According to Guardiola, the Manchester City team must focus on Sunday’s trip to west London rather than the epic clash with Arsenal.
“Talking about Arsenal, if you don’t win at Stamford Bridge – that’s not an easy place to go – maybe we don’t need to make the press conference before Arsenal because it’ll be over,” Guardiola told reporters.
“Everybody knows it. You know it, I know it, the players know it, everybody knows it. England knows it. So, there’s how many games left?
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“You have to win all of them, all. Not one draw, no. Forget about it,” he said.
With games ahead, Guardiola harped on his team maintaining a perfect record to have any chance of retaining the title.
“The aura doesn’t make you feel wins. For most of the players, not now but in recent past, it’s just, ‘OK, we have done it many times, we can do it again’,” Guardiola explained.
“But that doesn’t define a season in the Premier League. The season in the Premier League is 11 months, and in the 11 months, there were a lot of games that we were good, but not good enough to win.
“Because now we are not seventh or eighth in the Premier League, we are second and fighting. It’s not a bad season.”
