{"id":23561,"date":"2020-01-08T12:58:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T12:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/?p=23561"},"modified":"2021-01-22T15:23:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T15:23:42","slug":"pep-guardiola-says-manchester-city-have-switched-their-focus-to-the-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/2020\/01\/pep-guardiola-says-manchester-city-have-switched-their-focus-to-the-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola Says Manchester City Have Switched Their Focus To The Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Man<\/strong>c<strong>hester City <\/strong>boss Pep Guardiola insists his team are preparing for the Champions League, as well as next season. The Spaniard has given up on the Premier League title chase after leading the Sky Blues to two consecutive trophy captures, conceding to Jurgen Klopp\u2019s unbeaten Liverpool side midway through this term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Reds would have to get a lot wrong to miss\nout on the league title this season, having opened up a 13-point advantage at\nthe top of the league standings. City find themselves 14 points adrift after\nlosing five times so far this term, with their latest coming in the form of a\n3-2 comeback from Wolverhampton last Friday. They\u2019ve since bounced back with a\nwin over Sheffield United on Sunday but Guardiola isn\u2019t very hopeful and is\nredirecting his focus to the remaining competitions his teams can actually win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A team which has the numbers of Liverpool, why should we think about that? It&#8217;s just preparing, play good and better to be as close to the top of the league as we can, prepare for the knockout competitions and for the next season,\u201d the manager said recently (via <strong>Goal.com<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Every game helps us to improve for next\nseason. Hopefully, we can do better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The motivation is to improve because\nwhen we improve we win games and that is the way to live better. That is the\nbest motivation for all of us. Even in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Now we recover for three days, thank you\nfor three days to recover, and prepare for the next game against Everton. That\nis what you have to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite their wonky form in the Premier League, Man City are still the bookmakers\u2019 favourites to win the Champions League this season. Fans can get the scoop on <strong>all the Champions League free bets available<\/strong> if they head to freebets.co.uk, where they can also find tips, predictions, enhanced offers and a variety of pertinent information where football betting is concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>City are 4\/1 to win the tournament with Bet365\nbut Liverpool are close in behind at 9\/2. Ladbrokes are offering 5\/1 odds on\nSpanish supremos Barcelona while French giants Paris Saint-Germain are 7\/1 with\nWilliam Hill. German side Bayern Munich are also 7\/1 with William Hill, who\nhave attached 11\/1 odds to Italian outfit Juventus and 18\/1 odds to Spain\u2019s\nReal Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last season\u2019s finalists, Tottenham Hotspur,\nare 20\/1 with Marathon Bet, Atletico Madrid of La Liga are 33\/1 with Betfair,\nand the Bundesliga\u2019s RB Leipzig are 40\/1 with Betvictor. Unibet are offering\n50\/1 on Frank Lampard\u2019s young Chelsea side, who made it to the round of 16\nafter a thrilling end to their knockout campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>City are set to face Real in the round of 16\nwhen the UCL returns in February and are 6\/4 favourites. And , while Guardiola\nhas admitted that his team aren\u2019t where they thought they\u2019d be at this point in\nthe season, he\u2019s reminded fans of the side\u2019s achievements over the last three\nyears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The fans can say or do whatever they\nwant but they cannot deny that the team in the last three years was incredible\nin every single competition,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, he\u2019s hoping the Reds slip up just\nenough to give City a fighting chance in the Premier League, but no one can\nfault him for being realistic as it will take a massive implosion for Klopp\u2019s\nmen to lose their grip on the title or even hand any other team expectations of\nclaiming it themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola insists his team are preparing for the Champions League, as well as next season. The Spaniard has given up on the Premier League title chase after leading the Sky Blues to two consecutive trophy captures, conceding to Jurgen Klopp\u2019s unbeaten Liverpool side midway through this term. 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