That would be the biggest frustration.
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“We had everything in our hands to be the best and I believe if we had played like we did against Arsenal we are the best team”.
‘It’s out of our hands now. “There have been a lot of positive things, but we must qualify again for the Champions League this season”. “We need to look at ourselves, not at our neighbour (Arsenal)”.
‘Maybe the players thought it was a given.
Over the course of the season, my feeling is that we’ve got no right to be in the hunt for a top four finish and our first FA Cup win in over a decade, but we are and we’ve got to take advantage of that. If we can get third in the league we’ll be delighted.
It was City’s pressing that helped them open the scoring after only eight minutes when a cross was nodded down from Fernandinho for Aguero’s 24th league goal this season, who finished with a sliced half volley into the bottom corner.
But that is what he is faced with as the tussle between the two Manchester clubs promises to provide more drama in the final week of this extraordinary season.
But City only themselves to blame after twice taking the lead and then allowing their visitors to equalise.
It proved City’s last good chance as they were forced to settle for a draw and disappointment for Manuel Pellegrini in his last home match in charge. The German may have his faults and he definitely has plenty of people waiting to criticise him when he does not have a massive impact but I have never heard anyone say that he panics or is poor in possession.
“They weren’t saying ‘stuff you” to City and Pellegrini, they were just flat and didn’t have the heart to do it. What are they thanking them for?
In fact he has missed just one top-flight fixture – through suspension – since joining Swansea from Arsenal in the summer of 2014.
“But everyone is excited about the future and what Pep Guardiola might bring”.
Tottenham squandered a lead for the second time this week to lose 2-1 to Southampton on Sunday, jeopardizing its attempt to finish in second place in the English Premier League.
“You can clearly see as a team and a group of players that we have picked up”. At least that way, they can win some money and forget that this season had ever happened. Manchester United can now overtake their crosstown rivals if the Red Devils win their last two matches of the season.
At the end of a week in which City was eliminated by Real Madrid in the Champions League semifinals, the team is now at risk of failing to be in Europe’s elite competition.
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“We deserve to be in the Champions League next year”, Pellegrini said afterwards. ‘We are to blame. We’ll try to briefly analyze these markets and find the best value bets.
