Pep Guardiola makes brutally honest Man City sack admission amid ongoing crisis

Manchester City haven't won for six games and look top-of-the-table Liverpool connected Sunday successful a lucifer which is acceptable to person repercussions connected this season's Premier League rubric race

Pep Guardiola has admitted his past grounds of occurrence astatine Manchester City is the lone happening redeeming him from the sack.

City spell to Premier League leaders Liverpool time connected the backmost of a six-game winless run, comprising of 5 consecutive defeats and a gully - the worst tally of Guardiola's managerial career. At immoderate different apical nine successful Europe, Guardiola would astir surely person been sacked, with the City brag conceding helium has lone been spared that destiny aft winning 18 trophies successful 8 years.

“At this shot nine you person to triumph and, if you don't win, you volition beryllium successful trouble,” said Guardiola up of the travel to Anfield. “I cognize the radical say, 'why is Pep not successful trouble, wherefore is Pep not sacked?'

“What we person done the past 8 years is wherefore I person this margin. The radical trust connected me, the hierarchy, each the people. It's not mean successful the large clubs to person the results we've had, but we person to judge it. What's for definite is that I privation to stay. I privation to bash it. But the infinitesimal I consciousness I'm not affirmative for the club, different 1 [manager] volition come. It has to be.”

Second-placed City are 8 points down Liverpool and could spot that spread widen to 11 points if Arne Slot's broadside triumph tomorrow, to summation their vantage successful the rubric race. Guardiola acknowledged City person fallen abbreviated this play by their imperious standards of erstwhile years, but told his players to basal up and not consciousness atrocious for themselves.

“When the dynamics are good, it's ever easier,” said Guardiola. “But you person to judge the concern that we have. The lone happening we tin do, I learned successful each my life, is to determination forward. In the bully moments and successful the atrocious moments, that's what you person to do.

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“We're astatine the extremity of November, the crippled astatine Anfield volition beryllium the archetypal time of December, truthful determination are many, galore months to play, galore bully things to play for. You can't autumn down again.

“The occurrence is successful however galore times you basal up erstwhile again and again and again you fall. So that's what you person to do.”

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