Manchester City head coach Josep Guardiola said that his team must defeat Tottenham, otherwise Arsenal will become the Premier League champion.
City will host their rescheduled Premier League match on Tuesday evening, playing away to Tottenham. In the event of a misfire of the “citizens”, the initiative in the championship race will go to Arsenal.
Guardiola clearly understands the cost of a mistake and sets up his team only to win in North London.
“Everything is obvious. We have only one option: to win the match. We’re going there for that.”
“Even in previous years, when we competed with Liverpool, I said: “Either we win, we win, we win, or it’s over for us.”
“I have a feeling that it will be very difficult to get ahead of Arsenal, because they are doing good things in all respects, and it is difficult to beat them, and since we have the opportunity to depend only on you, we need to take advantage of it.”
“What we did yesterday doesn’t matter anymore. Our attitude is simple: if we don’t win (Tottenham), we won’t win the Premier League. This will give us the opportunity to claim the championship at home in the final round.”
“A lot of times we played really well and couldn’t score or win the match. This time we need to do something special, exceptional, which has not happened in the Premier League yet.”
“It’s time to do this, otherwise Arsenal will be the champion,” Guardiola was quoted as saying by Sky Sports.