Manchester Metropolis midfielder Nico Gonzalez has despatched a well timed reminder to his teammates on what they should do to safe Champions League soccer subsequent season.
Metropolis at the moment sit in fifth place within the league desk – six level adrift of third-placed Nottingham Forest and one level behind fourth-placed Chelsea – with 9 league video games left to play.
Per week on from a crushing 1-0 loss away at Forest, the Premier League champions’ top-four hopes had been dealt one other blow this weekend as Brighton and Hove Albion secured a hard-fought 2-2 draw on the Etihad Stadium.
Since his January arrival, Metropolis’s signing Nico Gonzalez has deputised within the quantity six midfield place within the absence of Ballon d’Or winner Rodri.
“There are nonetheless so many video games left,” mentioned Gonzalez, talking on Metropolis’s probabilities of a top-four league end after the Blues shared the spoils with Brighton on Saturday, as quoted by .
“There are 9 finals. We’ve talked loads about this, that there are 9 finals left. Each sport is a closing for us. We speak concerning the feeling that each sport is a closing, the sensation that we now have to provide all the things and I feel you could possibly see that each participant ran and fought for each ball – as if it was the final sport of the season.
“We performed the sport as if it was a closing and I’m fairly positive if we play like this, good outcomes will come. Clearly it was troublesome, however I feel we did an awesome job, we gave all the things and that’s crucial factor.”
Gonzalez, who prefers to be often known as ‘Nico’, is considered one of 4 signings Manchester Metropolis made as a part of a web £181.5 million outlay within the January switch window.
The Spaniard added: “The depth and the perspective (towards Brighton) from everybody was excellent, so if we proceed to play like this, wins are going to return.
“At (Manchester) Metropolis, yearly, in each sport, it’s important to win, it’s important to give all the things, and I don’t care if there are rumours outdoors. What I care about each sport is to battle, to attempt to win and what individuals discuss outdoors of the dressing room, we don’t care.
“I’m so pleased to be right here (at Metropolis). I really feel nice, I really feel wonderful to play right here, to play in perhaps the very best group within the final 10 years within the world, so I’m very proud to be right here and I attempt to give all the things day-after-day.”
Metropolis subsequent face Bournemouth in a FA Cup quarter-final tie as they give the impression of being to ebook a semi-final date at Wembley in a bid to safe some type of silverware this season and convey dwelling their eighth FA Cup title.