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Pep Guardiola takes the challenging attitude of the Champions League after equivalent to an unwanted man City file

Manchester City’s manager Pep Guardiola has not abandoned hope in search of his side of the Champions League qualifications, but admitted that his tired team could be helped by a campaign without a European football official.

Nottingham’s forest was worth 1-0 winners At the home of the Premier League’s downward champions on Saturday, condemning the city to the ninth defeat of the season equalizing the club’s record for league loss during Guardiola’s glamorous term. In fact, this reversal of top flights is the tallest that the Catalan coach has overseen throughout his management career.

Chelsea’s victory in Leicester City On Sunday he pushed the city down to fifth place. The top five of the Premier League are expected to qualify for the next season’s Champions League, but the sixth-mounted Brighton is just one spot behind the champions and the face City next weekend.

“The prerequisite for the Champions League would be great success, but you have to win it,” Guardiola warned after defeat in the woods. “Whether there are five, six or seven (parts) you need to win games.

“It wouldn’t be good (if the city doesn’t qualify), but I saw what happened to other Premier League teams in the past. Not being in the Champions League would be a problem, but there are teams that do not qualify for the return and are there now.”

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Season – club

League damage

2019/20 – Man City

9

2024/25 – Man City

9*

2016/17 – Man City

6

2020/21 – Man City

6

2008/09 – Barcelona

5

2014/15 – Bavaria Munich

5

2022/23 – Man City

5

2018/19 – Man City

4

2011/12 – Barcelona

3

2021/22 – Man City

3

2023/24 – Man City

3

2010/11 – Barcelona

2

2013/14 – Bavaria Munich

2

2015/16 – Bavaria Munich

2

2017/18 – Man City

2

2009/10 – Barcelona

1

Chelsea indefinitely lost European football completely after a devastating 2015/16 campaign before the top flight title next season below Antonio Conte at Guardiola’s First Premier League time. Arsenal also returned to Continental Elite after six years of drought and Aston Villa enjoys their first Champions League campaign.

“How many years was Manchester City in the Champions League until February? Ten years?” We are used to doing great things and we have to try to do it, but we wake up in the morning and try to continue and have a good season next season.

“In the knockout games, sometimes the details make the difference, but in the Premier League over 38 games, if you can’t finish in the first four or five are because we weren’t good enough.

By taking over BarcelonaThe first team in 2008, Guardiola never failed to qualify for Europe’s Premier Club competition. However, this injured side of the city provides comfortably the worst results of its coaching career. Never before it has a Guardiola team ended a top -of -the -line season with a goal difference of less than 41 – the current city deal is only 15.

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2025-03-10 16:45:00

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