Man City City Director Pep Guardiola says every Premier League match is now final in Champions Champions League Football news

Pep Guardiola urged Manchester City fans to bring noise and treat their remaining five matches in the Premier League as a Cup.

The Guardiola team sits fourth after it recovered from a terrible end to 2024, but they still have a job to do on the struggle for the place of the Champions League, with five teams separated by only two points.

One of these teams are opponents on Tuesday Aston Villaand Those who face live on him Sky Sports.

In response to a question about whether the match against Villa was like the cup finals, Guardiola said: “Certainly. After the match was against the final wolves, then Southampton because every game is concerned.

“But Villa is a competitor to qualify for the Champions League, and when you see the game they played against my friend Luis Enrique and PSG, I was really admirer.

“They can play a low mass, but when they decide to go, with their weapons, the speed they have, the sectors, the calm and we need our people because I think our people want the Champions League again next season and we hope they can wait for one minute.

“Sometimes we are slow, sometimes we do not play well, but we need them strongly to support us, to make noise and presence there all the time because it is final. It is completely final for us.”

Emery: Focus everyone on the MAN CITY mission

For his part, Aston Villa Unai Emery coach says that everyone in the club focuses on facing Man City, who says he is “tremendous”.

“We cannot stop,” Emery said. “We are involved in our main moment of the season, and through the Premier League, we are trying to get our first goal in 38 games in the game and tomorrow is 34,” Emery said.

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“Man City, one of the teams that compete as in the first four or five places, even to win the title but this year is more difficult for them, but my respect for them is huge as is always the case and we are ready.

“Every player and every worker here in Aston Villa, focuses on the moment we are and tomorrow we will prepare the match with the best as possible with the players who will be available for tomorrow.”

What is the state of playing in the race for the Champions League?

The race for the early five is narrow, as only two points are separated Newcastle In the third and Aston Villa In seventh place, with five weeks remaining.

Newcastle is still third despite a horrific defeat 4-1 in Aston Villa, however Nutingham forest They can climb over them if they can win at hand in Tottenham, struggle Monday night football – Live on Sky Sports.

Man City The forest jumped to fourth place after its 2-0 victory over Everton and closed the gap over Newcastle to one point.

Chelsea He also went over the forest until fifth place after their 2-1 dramatic victory in Fulham.

Chelsea, forests and villas that make the seventh closed at 57 points, just separated by the goal difference.

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