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North Wales Chronicle
19-05-2025
- Sport
- North Wales Chronicle
Pep Guardiola says Manchester City's last two games are ‘massive'
City's underwhelming campaign will end without silverware following their 1-0 defeat to Crystal Palace in the final of the FA Cup. They will now turn their attention to securing a spot in Europe's showpiece tournament with their fate still in their hands. One final home game 👑 🤝 #AsahiSuperDry — Manchester City (@ManCity) May 18, 2025 Victories in their final games of the Premier League season, at home to Bournemouth on Tuesday and at Fulham next weekend, will be enough to secure a place in the top five. However, City will head into their next match at the Etihad outside of the qualification spots in sixth, albeit with a game in hand over their rivals. Asked to quantify the importance of being in the Champions League, Guardiola said: 'It is obvious. Ask the same question to Arsenal, or Chelsea, or Nottingham Forest or Newcastle. Of course it is important. It is massive. 'We have to come back and we have to recover quickly. Yes, it is better to play against Bournemouth having won the FA Cup because victories help winning, but now we have to prove how strong we are. 'And from my point of view, we have two massively important games for the short-term future of this club.' City started this season bidding to win a fifth consecutive Premier League title. It would have appeared unfathomable that they would end the season scrambling for a Champions League spot. Ruben Dias continued: 'These last two games are like two massive finals, and they mean everything to us. 'We will feel however we have to feel today (after City's defeat to Palace), but tomorrow wake up strong and ready to go again. 'We controlled the game, and had a lot of chances but we didn't turn those chances into goals, and we only have ourselves to blame. We must do better.'
Leader Live
18-05-2025
- Sport
- Leader Live
Pep Guardiola says Manchester City's last two games are ‘massive'
City's underwhelming campaign will end without silverware following their 1-0 defeat to Crystal Palace in the final of the FA Cup. They will now turn their attention to securing a spot in Europe's showpiece tournament with their fate still in their hands. One final home game 👑 🤝 #AsahiSuperDry — Manchester City (@ManCity) May 18, 2025 Victories in their final games of the Premier League season, at home to Bournemouth on Tuesday and at Fulham next weekend, will be enough to secure a place in the top five. However, City will head into their next match at the Etihad outside of the qualification spots in sixth, albeit with a game in hand over their rivals. Asked to quantify the importance of being in the Champions League, Guardiola said: 'It is obvious. Ask the same question to Arsenal, or Chelsea, or Nottingham Forest or Newcastle. Of course it is important. It is massive. 'We have to come back and we have to recover quickly. Yes, it is better to play against Bournemouth having won the FA Cup because victories help winning, but now we have to prove how strong we are. 'And from my point of view, we have two massively important games for the short-term future of this club.' City started this season bidding to win a fifth consecutive Premier League title. It would have appeared unfathomable that they would end the season scrambling for a Champions League spot. Ruben Dias continued: 'These last two games are like two massive finals, and they mean everything to us. 'We will feel however we have to feel today (after City's defeat to Palace), but tomorrow wake up strong and ready to go again. 'We controlled the game, and had a lot of chances but we didn't turn those chances into goals, and we only have ourselves to blame. We must do better.'
Powys County Times
18-05-2025
- Sport
- Powys County Times
Pep Guardiola says Manchester City's last two games are ‘massive'
Pep Guardiola has described Manchester City's bid to qualify for the Champions League as 'massive' as he challenged his stars to prove their worth. City's underwhelming campaign will end without silverware following their 1-0 defeat to Crystal Palace in the final of the FA Cup. They will now turn their attention to securing a spot in Europe's showpiece tournament with their fate still in their hands. One final home game 👑 🤝 #AsahiSuperDry — Manchester City (@ManCity) May 18, 2025 Victories in their final games of the Premier League season, at home to Bournemouth on Tuesday and at Fulham next weekend, will be enough to secure a place in the top five. However, City will head into their next match at the Etihad outside of the qualification spots in sixth, albeit with a game in hand over their rivals. Asked to quantify the importance of being in the Champions League, Guardiola said: 'It is obvious. Ask the same question to Arsenal, or Chelsea, or Nottingham Forest or Newcastle. Of course it is important. It is massive. 'We have to come back and we have to recover quickly. Yes, it is better to play against Bournemouth having won the FA Cup because victories help winning, but now we have to prove how strong we are. 'And from my point of view, we have two massively important games for the short-term future of this club.' City started this season bidding to win a fifth consecutive Premier League title. It would have appeared unfathomable that they would end the season scrambling for a Champions League spot. Ruben Dias continued: 'These last two games are like two massive finals, and they mean everything to us. 'We will feel however we have to feel today (after City's defeat to Palace), but tomorrow wake up strong and ready to go again. 'We controlled the game, and had a lot of chances but we didn't turn those chances into goals, and we only have ourselves to blame. We must do better.'
South Wales Guardian
18-05-2025
- Sport
- South Wales Guardian
Pep Guardiola says Manchester City's last two games are ‘massive'
City's underwhelming campaign will end without silverware following their 1-0 defeat to Crystal Palace in the final of the FA Cup. They will now turn their attention to securing a spot in Europe's showpiece tournament with their fate still in their hands. One final home game 👑 🤝 #AsahiSuperDry — Manchester City (@ManCity) May 18, 2025 Victories in their final games of the Premier League season, at home to Bournemouth on Tuesday and at Fulham next weekend, will be enough to secure a place in the top five. However, City will head into their next match at the Etihad outside of the qualification spots in sixth, albeit with a game in hand over their rivals. Asked to quantify the importance of being in the Champions League, Guardiola said: 'It is obvious. Ask the same question to Arsenal, or Chelsea, or Nottingham Forest or Newcastle. Of course it is important. It is massive. 'We have to come back and we have to recover quickly. Yes, it is better to play against Bournemouth having won the FA Cup because victories help winning, but now we have to prove how strong we are. 'And from my point of view, we have two massively important games for the short-term future of this club.' City started this season bidding to win a fifth consecutive Premier League title. It would have appeared unfathomable that they would end the season scrambling for a Champions League spot. Ruben Dias continued: 'These last two games are like two massive finals, and they mean everything to us. 'We will feel however we have to feel today (after City's defeat to Palace), but tomorrow wake up strong and ready to go again. 'We controlled the game, and had a lot of chances but we didn't turn those chances into goals, and we only have ourselves to blame. We must do better.'
Leader Live
16-05-2025
- Sport
- Leader Live
Pep Guardiola: Winning the FA Cup would be ‘massively important' for Man City
City have had to readjust their targets this season after failing to defend their Premier League title and exiting the Champions League prematurely. Guardiola's side are hoping to salvage something from a disappointing campaign by beating Crystal Palace in Saturday's final at Wembley and securing a top-five spot next week. Wembley awaits 🏟️👀 🤝 #AsahiSuperDry — Manchester City (@ManCity) May 12, 2025 City manager Guardiola said: 'That is now the problem, right? The FA Cup now is not the first choice. 'Of course, we want it. Once we are there, we want to lift the trophy. Of course it's really massively important.' While City are bidding to win the 19th trophy of Guardiola's reign – and their third FA Cup under the Spaniard – Palace are targeting the first in their club's history. Oliver Glasner's side head to the national stadium after a strong second half of the season in which they have lost just four of their last 24 games. 'It's a fantastic team,' said Guardiola. 'They've made a good season. They have pace, quality and are a threat. 'Of course we have to perform well but we travel to London to win the title.' It is City's third successive appearance in the final but they will be keen to make amends for last season's defeat by arch-rivals Manchester United. Guardiola said: 'It's much better winning than losing. It was disappointment last season for our performance but four days or five days before we won the Premier League, the fourth in a row. Maybe our mindset was not incredibly perfect. 'But it's fine, it happened. The important thing is we were there and are again one year later. It's an honour, a privilege, being there three times in a row.' It seems unlikely Rodri, who has been out since suffering a serious knee injury in September, will feature despite suggestions the game was a target when he returned to training recently. Guardiola said: 'He's much, much better but I'm waiting on the doctors. When they tell me he's ready, he's going to start. We don't want to take a risk and take a step back now in this moment.' The final potentially offers Kevin De Bruyne one last opportunity to shine in a showpiece occasion before he leaves the club at the end of the season. After that he has two Premier League games remaining next against Bournemouth and Fulham next week and he is not expected to be involved at the Club World Cup in the summer. Reports this week have linked City with the signing of Bayer Leverkusen playmaker Florian Wirtz as a potential replacement but Guardiola was not willing to discuss the speculation. 'I don't have to have the time to talk about that before the final of the FA Cup,' he said. 'I have 24 exceptional players. We're not going to talk one second about the future.'
