Manchester City head coach Pep Guardiola feels the club can not think about being in the title race after playing a 2-2 draw against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park on Saturday. The veteran Spaniard reckons it is Manchester City’s season to suffer.
The visitors bounced back twice against Crystal Palace as Erling Haaland and Rico Lewis scored for the Sky Blues after Daniel Munoz and Maxence Lacroix scored the home team.
Manchester City has suffered three losses and one draw in their last five games as they haven’t been at their best.
“We take a point. We fought incredible and came back twice. It’s a season to suffer. We’ll see what happens in the last months,” Guardiola said. “We cannot talk about the title race when we lose four games in a row and draw. We’ll try to recover players. We’ll see in the last month.”
City were without the services of Phil Foden, Manuel Akanji, and Nathan Aké as the trio has been sidelined due to injury woes.
“We have many important players injured — many players with many minutes but the physicality is there — but we were there, and we did everything we could to win, and I am so pleased and proud of the players,” the Spaniard said.
The Cityzens midfielder Bernardo Silva said the team is not happy to share the spoils with Crystal Palace as they are always expected to win.
“With Man City it’s always two points lost,” City midfielder Bernardo Silva said. “One point is better than zero but we’re not happy at the moment. We know our situation with injuries. Coming to Crystal Palace is never easy but we have to do better.
“When I finish a game and I get a point I’m not happy. It’s not the way we built this team, it’s not our standard. We’re in December. We’d like to be in a different position. If we recover our players quickly we can always do it. But right now our concern is a different one.
“If we’re fourth or fifth we have to look at winning the next game. The last month and a half have not been good enough.”
City is currently in fourth place in the standings with eight wins, three draws, and four losses.
