You can play a ideal match, but they’ll win because they have magicians.
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On the title showdown with Leicester, Pellegrini said he did not think it would be decisive in terms of the title race.
However, City are still involved in four competitions this season and fellow Sky Sports pundit Thierry Henry says they can look at the example of Bayern Munich, who won the German League, the German Cup and the Champions League in 2013, despite knowing Jupp Heynckes was leaving. Chelsea play their Champions League game on the Tuesday before. There are still a lot of points.
He added: “It [reaching 400 appearances] is something I can be proud of, to play for this great club for so long and have some success here – but hopefully there’s still a lot more to come”. The seeds for Leicester’s dramatic rise were sown in their late charge away from relegation last season.
“I was so bored in the last press conference that I tried to make it interesting!”-Manuel Pellegrini, on his big mid-week press conference”.
The Chilean said: “I think Leicester started playing very well last season”.
But the man with the second-best Premiership record after 100 games – his 65 wins are bettered by only Jose Mourinho with 73 – isn’t one to feel sorry for himself. “This season, maybe at the beginning it was a surprise but now it is not a surprise”. Guardiola likes players who perform very well and are extremely intelligent. They were excellent in possession and hitting balls I wouldn’t have thought were possible.
“We have to travel to Ukraine on Monday, so I don’t see any reason why we can’t play on the Saturday”.
Jesus Navas is set to be out for a minimum of three weeks after suffering with a hamstring injury picked up in Tuesday night’s 1-0 victory over Sunderland.
City suffered a blow to their title hopes as they were beaten 3-1 by Barclays Premier League league leaders Leicester on Saturday.
Henry said: “We knew he was going to retire and Pep was going to take the job – and they went on to win the treble”. “It is hard to say this (that Leicester can win the title)”.
“I don’t know why, this season is a insane league”. “We must continue in this way”. We couldn’t do it and now we are six points behind Leicester, but we have another 39 points to play for so it is important to be focused game by game and try to beat Tottenham here, as they are another team fighting for the title.
Already, there are indications that some players, including Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure, would leave the club at the end of the season due to the change. At this time of my career, I just want to be out there with the boys playing games and enjoying my football.
They went in there without any passion or any fight.
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“I don’t believe the bookmakers”, said the Italian, whose side visit Arsenal next weekend. Maybe everybody believes in something special and they are working for something special.
