Guardiola: City squad love to play with pressure | OneFootball

Pep Guardiola says his City players relish the pressure of a Premier League title race.

We are now just two victories from a record fourth successive top-flight trophy after an emphatic 4-0 win at Fulham on Saturday.

Josko Gvardiol scored twice at Craven Cottage, with Phil Foden and Julian Alvarez adding goals to seal the three points.

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Having gone 21 league games unbeaten, winning each of our last seven, City are in a fine run of form domestically.

Now we know that if we can win at Spurs on Tuesday night and in next Sunday’s home game with West Ham, we will again lift the trophy.

Two of our previous successes under Guardiola have come in tense races with Liverpool that went to the final day of the season while it is Arsenal who are pushing us to the end of the campaign this time around.

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However, Guardiola is confident his players can again stand up to the challenge.

“I had the feeling they like to play with pressure. Some teams they are used to this, they have incredible personalities,” he said of his own players.

“Manu [Akanji], Ruben [Dias], Kyle [Walker], Eddy, Rodri and Kova[cic]. Phil [Foden]. Players who enjoy playing with that pressure. Otherwise you know that if you don't play to that level and if you lose the game you lose the Premier League.

“We have known it for many years. Always the same. Don't think anything other than the next game. See what happens. Go to London, perform well, try to win the game.”

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City appeared to be at our brilliant best in the win at Craven Cottage.

Guardiola puts that down to his players being fresh after a week without a game since last week’s defeat of Wolves.

With a quick turnaround before our return to London, the boss believes the potential prize on the line will keep his players determined.

“This week we had a long week. We were more fresh than we were at Nottingham Forest, there we were exhausted,” he stated.

“Forest were better than us, we were lucky. We came from Madrid and Chelsea.

“We had a long week this week, three days off, two days training sessions.

“Now we don't have time, just three days. But what we are playing for is not tired in our minds. The challenge is so big.”