{"id":9481,"date":"2026-05-17T02:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=9481"},"modified":"2026-05-17T02:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:00:38","slug":"guardiola-delivers-really-good-verdict-on-man-city-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=9481","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola delivers &#8216;really good&#8217; verdict on Man City season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Pep Guardiola believes Manchester City have enjoyed a \u201creally, really good\u201d season even if they fall short in the Premier League title race with Arsenal. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>City are two points behind the leaders with just two games remaining, meaning they need the Gunners to drop points if they are to have any chance of finishing top of the table.<\/p>\n<p>Even if they miss out on a seventh league title in the Guardiola era, City can still end the campaign with two trophies if they can beat Chelsea in the FA Cup final this Sunday to add to their League Cup win.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Pep Guardiola delivers \u2018really good\u2019 verdict on Man City season<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Asked if the season can be considered a success should Man City win two domestic trophies but fail to finish to pip Arsenal to the Premier League, Guardiola answered: \u201cIt depends on the trophies you lift. Sometimes you lift trophies and the season has been successful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cSometimes, you lift and the truth is the season has been really, really bad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI said a few weeks ago this season has been good. Really, really good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Every Man City player to reach 100 Premier League goal involvements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Man City will play in their fourth consecutive FA Cup final, but have lost each of the last two to Manchester United and Crystal Palace respectively. Guardiola is hoping to avoid the same fate this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThere\u2019s excitement, of course,\u201d he added. \u201cI hope we can do better than the last two times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIt\u2019s new players and it\u2019s forgotten. A new game against Chelsea. We are in the final and we have to try to win the trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola, however, wishes he had more time to prepare his team for the final after facing Crystal Palace on Wednesday. The fixture was rescheduled after City reached the League Cup final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI would prefer seven days like Chelsea had but when you reach Carabao Cup final, you have less days. It has happened in the past when we have won the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThe schedule is what it is. It is not ideal but it is what it its. We have done it in the past and we have to do it tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cBecause the big clubs, when you are in difficult circumstances, you have to do a little extra. It\u2019s simple. It is not the perfect scenario to prepare for the final because we have not trained anything since the last game against Crystal Palace. But we are going to try.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Power Rankings: PSG and Inter Milan celebrate silverware<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See Also \u2013\u00a0The Premier League managerial carousel: Who goes where?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube | TikTok<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola believes Manchester City have enjoyed a \u201creally, really good\u201d season even if they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}