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Alla Zakarian

08-03-2021 | 00:30 Football
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Pep Guardiola gives a Manchester City reality check after Manchester United defeat


Pep Guardiola praised Manchester United for their derby victory. However, he also reminded that Manchester City remain in the driving seat to win the Premier League title. City's 21-match winning streak was ended on a 2-0 defeat. "In football, everything can happen. Everything can happen. We can win the next game and lose the next games," he said. "That's why when people say Pep always says the same after so many victories in a row it is because I know everything can happen. "We have done incredibly. Today the news is that we lost so congratulations to Man United for the victory but we are trying to win the Premier League and we need six or seven victories from ten games. When you arrive to the last 10 games, everything is going to be shorter. Our opponents have to win all their games and we have to lose four." Kevin De Bruyne admitted that City played into United hands early on and the defeat meant Guardiola's selection faced scrutiny for the first time in a while. "What we have to do is recover, tomorrow I will not speak with the team, the day after tomorrow I will not speak with the team, and the day of the game I will tell the team how incredible they are because they way they played until the end, considering United are fantastic - no defeats away for a year shows how strong they are. "Having that margin now it is in our hands. We come back with what we have to do, new fresh legs on Wednesday and try to do another game. I'm not going to analyse this game thinking we were perfect in the last 21 games. Always there are problems when we win or lose but I am pretty sure like we have done after winning games we think about the next one. The way Southampton play is completely different to United and we are going to decide the way we want to play and try to do it."
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