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Manchester City cannot think about winning a fifth consecu\u00adtive Premier League title, manager Pep Guardiola said, with the team mired in a run of poor perfor\u00admances.<\/p>\n
Guardiola\u2019s side had to settle for a point in a 2-2 league draw with Crystal Palace on Saturday, twice coming back from a goal down and losing Rico Lewis to a red card late in the game, to remain fourth in the standings.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe take a point. We fought incredibly and came back twice. It\u2019s a season to suffer. We\u2019ll see what happens in the last months,\u201d Guardiola said. \u201cWe cannot talk about the title race when we lose four games in a row and draw. We\u2019ll try to recover players. We\u2019ll see in the last month.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lewis and Erling Haaland scored in the draw that had Guar\u00addiola speaking with pride about his players\u2019 resilience with his side still missing a number of key players through injury and illness.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have many important play\u00aders injured \u2014 many players with many minutes but the physicality is there \u2014 but we were there, and we did everything we could to win, and I am so pleased and proud of the players,\u201d the Spaniard said.<\/p>\n
Manuel Akanji and Nathan Ak\u00e9 were the latest to join City\u2019s list of absentees, sidelined after injuries suffered in their 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest on Wednesday. Phil Foden sat out his second suc\u00adcessive game with bronchitis.<\/p>\n
The draw, however, felt like a loss in terms of City\u2019s chances of remaining in the title fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Man City it\u2019s always two points lost,\u201d City midfielder Bernardo Silva said. \u201cOne point is better than zero but we\u2019re not happy at the moment. We know our situation with injuries. Coming to Crystal Palace is never easy but we have to do better.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I finish a game and I get a point I\u2019m not happy. It\u2019s not the way we built this team, it\u2019s not our standard. We\u2019re in Decem\u00adber. We\u2019d like to be in a different position. If we recover our players quickly we can always do it. But right now our concern is a differ\u00adent one.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we\u2019re fourth or fifth we have to look at winning the next game. The last month and a half have not been good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next up for Man City is a big Champions League game against Juventus on Wednesday. \u2013ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City cannot think about winning a fifth consecu\u00adtive Premier League title, manager Pep Guardiola said, with the team mired in a run of poor perfor\u00admances. Guardiola\u2019s side had to settle for a point in a 2-2 league draw with Crystal Palace on Saturday, twice coming back from a goal down and losing Rico Lewis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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