Pep Guardiola has instructed his Manchester Metropolis gamers to strap themselves in for one more nerve-shredding, rollercoaster trip of a closing day as they bid to grow to be the primary membership in English soccer historical past to win 4 consecutive league titles.
It’s the fifth time in 12 years – and third time throughout Guardiola’s tenure – that Metropolis will head into the ultimate day with the title on the road.
And the Catalan has warned his gamers to be prepared for one more dramatic finale consistent with the Aston Villa sport two seasons in the past or Queens Park Rangers a decade earlier than that.
“We have to win one sport to be champions so everybody would like to be in our place but it surely gained’t be simple,” the Metropolis supervisor mentioned.
“I’ve the sensation will probably be an Aston Villa sport. We might like to be 3-0 up but it surely isn’t going to occur. We noticed sufficient West Ham video games in the previous couple of days and within the final sport [against them], they’ve a couple of issues we have now to manage. However we’re prepared.”
The sport shall be David Moyes’s final as West Ham supervisor and he joked this week that it might be “troublesome to cease Metropolis’s Underneath-14s profitable the title”, not to mention their rampant first staff. However Guardiola expects West Ham to make life extraordinarily troublesome and has instructed his gamers to be able to endure.
“He [Moyes] will do every thing to beat us,” mentioned Guardiola. “What occurred in opposition to Aston Villa and QPR, with the Agüero second and the Dzeko second. I’m prepared for it to be a tricky, robust sport. I need to put within the minds of the gamers – take a look at Tottenham, how they fought for each ball [in Tuesday’s 2-0 win], it was unbelievable aggression and dedication.
“I don’t care concerning the outdoors. I solely care concerning the 11 gamers at West Ham. They are going to be able to beat us. That occurred with Aston Villa – they didn’t play for something, in the identical place, two years in the past. I do know what occurred. It’s going to occur the identical.
“Ourselves and our individuals have to return right here to be able to help from the primary minute and be with us, to do it collectively.”
