Man City can’t ‘confuse’ season as success – Guardiola

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has stated that they are unable to get “confused” because this season has been successful since winning the FA Cup.

City beat Nottingham Forest 2-0 to set up a date with Crystal Palace on May 17 with Rico Lewis and Josko Gvardiol on target.

Palace have never won a significant trophy, but it will be their third successive FA Cup final and the chance to reach its eighth title.

City’s only chance to win a major trophy this season is the Community Shield, which their four consecutive Premier League titles were won by Liverpool on Sunday.

“No”, he said. “The damage would be minimal,” he said. That the season has been good won’t cause confusion. The right decision must be made by the club to improve the program for the upcoming season.

We are “a thousand million points’ worth of Liverpool.” I’ve said it many times that the Premier League season hasn’t been good because we can’t decide whether or not it is.

“We made an effort to prevent the damage at the same time as it could not happen this season,” said one participant. Now that we are recovering, we must be calm.

Lewis, who had been demoted from his regular full-back position, gave City the lead in the second-half with a strong performance in midfield.

After struggling in mid-season play and losing both domestic and European competitions, the 20-year-old believes his team are now heading in the right direction.

We can go on about making excuses, but the season started off strong and now we’re picking ourselves up and have momentum, Lewis said. We now stand a chance of winning the trophy, and we should ideally be in the top four going into the season.

This season, we showed character, we showed character. Although it hasn’t been smooth sailing, we have improved and demonstrated our leadership.

City only managed one win overall in their next 13 games after posting a 13-game unbeaten start to the season.

After drawing 1-1 with Everton on Boxing Day, they were forced to drop to seventh place, but they were still able to reclaim Champions League contention.

After falling to Real Madrid in the Champions League knockout play-offs in February, Guardiola’s side also experienced their first Champions League exit in 12 years.

They stuttered 5-1 at Arsenal in February, while Forest won 1-0 at the City Ground in March.

However, City have won six of their past seven games, including their last-gasp 2-1 victory over top-five rivals Aston Villa on Tuesday.

Mateo Kovacic, a midfielder, added: “We found ourselves once more. Everyone is focusing their entire efforts, and the team is getting stronger. Many players came back strong.

Before the break, Nuno Espirito Santo’s side failed to hit City with a late winner, leaving the 35, 000 Forest fans behind the goal to silence Lewis’ early opener.

Anthony Elanga’s substitute kick from one minute after starting the second half should have made it 1-1, but Gvardiol’s 51st-minute header put the game beyond reach.

After rounding City goalkeeper Stefan Ortega, Gibbs-White volleyed the ball past the post from a tight angle before hitting the post with an audacious volley from the edge of the area.

Following more forest pressure, Taiwo Awoniyi made an instinctive effort to finish the piece.

It makes everything difficult because we just started really badly. It took some time to adjust and feel at ease, Nuno said.

The second half had a challenging start, but the momentum gradually shifted. There were some chances that could have changed the game. We must accept that we lost because the boys gave it everything.

Forest will face Brentford in the Premier League on Thursday, knowing that they will finish in third place and keep their quest for a Champions League spot. Forest is currently sixth in the table, but they are aware that a win will keep them in third place.

“It’s a sad day, “nodded Nuno.” Although it will be difficult when we wake up and the sadness vanish, we are aware that we have important things to fight for.

“The only thing it can do is make us feel more upbeat in the final moments of the season.”

Gibbs-White, a midfielder, also hoped Forest would recover from defeat to relegation in the final game of the previous season.