Manchester City coach, Pep Guardiola has accepted defeat in
his side's defence of the premier league title they won in 2019, saying he will
be focusing on other competitions now, after his side were beaten 2-0 by Jose
Mourinho's Tottenham on Sunday night.
Steven Bergwijn scored a debut goal while Heung-min Son's
scored again after Manchester City were reduced to 10 men following Oleksandr
Zinchenko's red card, leaving Guardiola's side 22 points adrift of leaders
Liverpool.
Guardiola, whose team is still in the FA Cup, Carabao Cup
final and UEFA Champions league believes the EPL title is all over for him.
'They are far away so they are unstoppable. They have a lot
of points, we have dropped points quite similar to today.
'Our targets are to win the remaining competitions and
qualify for the Champions League next season.'
Guardiola also responded to claims he kept his players
locked up in the away dressing room after the match for 40 minutes.
''No, I was not angry. Normally I don't like it if we don't
play good, if we don't run or we don't fight,' said Guardiola.
'Never when we lose do I stay away from my players because I
know them. But we lost the game so we talked about how to move forward and keep
going. There's a lot of months to play.'
He also took a thinly-veiled swipe at former Premier League
chairman Richard Scudamore, who once said that City's dominance could affect
the EPL's credibility ahead of last season after winning the title by 19 points
in the previous campaign.
''The last two seasons they said City winning the title was
bad for the Premier League and that it could not happen again,' said the City
boss.
'They said someone has to stop City getting 100 points and
winning it again. So now it is Liverpool you have to be concerned with about
the Premier League.'
