If some top manager is going through a tough time at this moment, it has to be none other than Pep Guardiola. The former Spanish international is active in Manchester City since 2016 and among eight Premier League campaign with City, he won six League titles, and also other prestigious championships including one UCL title.
Pep is looking vulnerable for the first time in his City career this season and since the start of November, he is struggling badly. Among his 11 fixtures in all competitions, he could only manage one victory and two draws. He lost 8 matches of his last 11 fixtures which is impossible to believe for a man of his standards.
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This may be the most difficult situation Pep ever faced in Manchester City, but can he still manage to win his 7th Premier League title this season? Boyhood Manchester City fan Shaun Wright-Philips recently discussed the present situation of Manchester City. While talking to Sports Casting UK, the former England International explained the possibilities of City winning the league title this season;
“I think if you go off what City’s done after Christmas over the last three or four years, you would tend to think for everybody else there’s still a very long way to go in this title race.
“If you want to look at how the results are going, they’re still in a position that none of them, including the manager and the coaching staff, have ever been in. This has never happened. So, I think it’s a great challenge for them as a team.
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“For Pep, managing all his staff, it’s frustrating. It’s much more frustrating for them than it is for your fans and everybody else. I don’t think it’s as black and white as everybody is saying in terms of, ‘No Rodri, ‘because there’s a lot of goals that we’ve conceded that take Rodri out of the picture, like the Nunes situation against Manchester United.
“The goals that would have happened behind him, yes, if Rodri had played the majority of the results would be completely different, but it’s a strange one because you can’t put a drop off like this on one man’s shoulders.
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“When Liverpool won the league under Klopp, what did they do the next season? When Man Utd won the treble, what did they do? For whatever reason, City’s been in a position where for the last four years, they’ve just won everything. They went onto bigger and better things, and now, I think they’re going through the jet lag that normally comes to clubs a year or two after success. City are being hit four years later. Honestly, it’s really weird. It’s interesting to me.”
Manchester City always looked unstoppable under the reign of Pep Guardiola. The Spanish legend is still considered one of the best managers in football, so we can definitely expect this decline to be temporary and the defending Premier League champions to be back on the right track soon.
