Manchester City drew 2-2 with Arsenal to leave their Champions League qualification in serious doubt and Tottenham Hotspur failed to nail down second place in the Premier League after losing 2-1 at home to Southampton on Sunday.
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Failing to qualify would also be a setback in terms of the club’s ambitions having made a big breakthrough in the Champions League this season by reaching the semi-finals for the first time.
Pellegrini himself said: “Well of course I wanted another goodbye – winning the game, playing attractive, attacking football that we did for most of the three years I’ve been here”.
He said: “I always think we can do it better, but it’s important thing is to compare yourself with all the other teams”.
The result means that City’s hopes of finishing in the Premier League’s top four and qualifying for the Champions League are no longer in their own hands, raising the prospect that Pellegrini’s successor, Pep Guardiola, will start life at the club in the Europa League.
If Arsenal avoid defeat to Villa they will finish third, otherwise it will be fourth if they lose and Manchester City beat Swansea, due to the better goal difference of Manuel Pellegrini’s side.
Pellegrini, however, called on his side to put their best foot forward in their final league match.
“The only thing we couldn’t be best at was defence – that was Chelsea; they conceded just four fewer goals than our team”.
Manuel Pellegrini has vowed to give Manchester City the ideal parting gift of a Champions League place at the expense of Manchester United, while champions Leicester will bring down the curtain on their astonishing season at Chelsea on Sunday. The Gunners are now on sixty-eighth points, three ahead of City and five ahead of United, who have a game in hand.
“I was disappointed not to win the game”, he said.
“It’s about a style and, for me, it’s important to be the highest-scoring team in those three seasons, always to be in the Champions League and to win three titles”.
The crowd were deflated by the result and the majority had left before City’s players returned to the field for their traditional end-of-season parade, prior to which Pellegrini also addressed fans.
Now, the Daily Mail report that Pellegrini is keen to say in the Premier League, and with his family settled in Cheshire, he’s particularly keen on the Everton job.
Aguero’s Manchester City travel to Swansea, hoping to hang on to the fourth spot over bitter rivals Manchester United, and will likely be in top form. “Of course we’re not ideal, of course we could have done better but for me we deserve to be in the Champions League”, he stated.
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“But that is the past and now we’re going to have to keep our heads up and going to have to get three points [in the final game of the season]”.
