Al -Sharq al -Awsat Newspaper -Guardiola: qualify for the Champions League does not mean the success of the city season

Manchester City coach Josep Guardiola derived the suggestions that indicate that his team could consider this unique season if he qualified for the UEFA Champions League after the bad departure of his career in the Premier League and the delivery of the title in favor of the Liverpool leaders and close to the crowning.

And City took a big step to guarantee the European qualification with her exciting 2-1 victory over Aston Villa on the evening yesterday, with the aim of Matthews Nunez in the fourth minute of the arrest time.

Goradiola’s team has skipped two centers from the fifth to the third in the championship standings, and is still far from the 18 -point Liverpool leaders, and therefore the season far from his goal will end, who put at the beginning of his career, which wins the title for the fifth time in succession.

“This season has been bad,” said Guardiola. It doesn’t matter if we reach the final of the England Cup or qualify for the Champions League. The truth is that what is determined and what makes you feel that the season is fine, is the English Premier League and not the Champions League or the cup, but rather the consistency in the league level. He added: “But this happens, sometimes crosses bad seasons and at the same time we see the level of teams in competition (in the premier league) surprising”.

The former Manchester United Roy Kane star and the Sky Sport sports analyst said that the summary of the Guardiola season was unjustly negative. He explained: «I think it was very hard for his team on the matter. The season began in a negative way, and it is clear that the team was subjected to a great relapse by hitting its most important stars in midfield Rodri (in the crusader ligament), and was not at its best. He added: «What happened is always in football, but I still think that if they have reached the title of the FA Cup and qualified for the Champions League, the season will not be bad. I realized that they have increased the standards in recent years, since any type of retirement appears seriously to the coach. “

City will be a guest of Nottingham for four in a game before the Federation Cup on Sunday, while Crystal Palace will host his rival Aston Villa in the other semifinals on Saturday.

But Guardiola, who jumped when his team marked the goal of the Aston Villa in a fatal moment, believes that the victory is important to maintain a stable gear for the team to go on.

After Manchester City advanced with an initial goal for the Portuguese Bernardo Silva, Marcus Rashford managed to tie the Aston Villa before the end of the first half of the penalty kick, but Matius Nunez returned and kidnapped the winning goal in the fourth minute of detention for the owners of the Earth to go up to third place with four rounds left at the end of the season. On the other hand, this loss left the Aston Villa team, led by the Spanish coach UNI EMERY, in seventh place, two points behind the first five places that give their owners a direct passage to the Champions League.

When asked about the importance of this victory, Guardiola said: “Of course, it was an important victory, but the most important thing is to continue this and win the next four games. We should not be scholars to know that we played in front of the Aston Villa, one of the best teams. We saw their game against Newcastle and Paris Saint -Germain, great performance, coach, everything. It is an exceptional team.” “.

He continued: «We played in the same way we played in the past, commitment, we didn’t give up much. We didn’t do a lot, but we ruled the rhythm of the game in most of the game. The defense line was again incredible again. All the players, we must maintain our calm and focus on the semifinals of the England Cup, it is important that our fate is in our hands – if we win three, four games, we will achieve our goal.

Two weeks after having announced his departure from the city at the end of the season, the captain of the captain of the team Kevin De Bruyne performed a strong performance while he did six opportunities, while no other player did more than two. According to Opta Statistics Network, this has been the sixty times when the Belgian player has made five or more possibilities in a championship match, which is the greatest number of opportunities that any player has done from the 2003-2004 season so far.

De Bruyne did not cost, after saying last Sunday he was surprised by the fact that the club had not been subjected to a new contract, to go on the bench when he came out as an alternative to Manuel Akanti late from the villa match, but rather sat on the advertising committee and provided directives to his teammates, confirming his leadership role.