Manchester Metropolis want go on a constant profitable run if they’re to safe qualification for subsequent season’s Champions League after dropping 1-0 to Nottingham Forest on Saturday afternoon.
The Premier League champions suffered their ninth defeat of the league season as Callum Hudson-Odoi’s 83rd minute strike went by Ederson’s close to submit and sealed a monumental win for Nuno Espirito Santo’s aspect within the race for Champions League qualification.
With Kevin De Bruyne, Jack Grealish and Omar Marmoush all on the bench, Metropolis lacked creativity in midfield and solely made a handful of clear-cut, goalscoring alternatives to bother Matz Sels within the opposition web.
Metropolis might end the gameweek in fifth place ought to Chelsea beat Leicester Metropolis on Sunday and the four-in-a-row Premier League champions are dropping margin for error if they’re to salvage what has been an uncharacteristically underwhelming season by ending within the prime 4.
Within the fast aftermath of the slim defeat in Nottingham, Guardiola addressed his aspect’s efficiency and gave an sincere tackle Metropolis’s pursuit of a prime 4 end.
“A decent sport, we managed the transitions rather well, created not loads of probabilities however they defended rather well. Within the first-half, we had probabilities to shoot however weren’t exact and on the finish, one transition and we misplaced a straightforward ball, they usually scored,” the Metropolis supervisor instructed TNT Sports activities.
Metropolis are dropping floor within the Champions League race and there stays little or no margin for error within the final 10 video games of the league season.
“We’ve got 10 video games to qualify for the Champions League we now have to win video games to qualify, and we’re going to the subsequent one. We’re going to organize the sport (in opposition to Brighton). We’ve got 10 finals. And the subsequent one, we begin,” Guardiola added.
A house fixture in opposition to Brighton and Hove Albion subsequent awaits Manchester Metropolis and Guardiola will probably be determined for his aspect to return to profitable methods in opposition to the Seagulls.