Pep Guardiola hails his Man City team for one of their ‘greatest achievements’

Pep Guardiola has hailed Manchester City ’s document 20 consecutive wins as on one in every of their “biggest achievements”.

The Blues fought their technique to a tricky 2-1 win over West Ham with objectives from defenders Ruben Dias and John Stones, to take a 13-point lead over Manchester United and Leicester on the prime of the Premier League.

And that run of victories equalled their 2017 document – which some folks dismiss, because it features a penalty shoot-out triumph.

Whichever method you have a look at it, the 20-match run, in all competitions, is an astonishing achievement, particularly in a season through which Covid restrictions, fixture logjams and lockdown soccer have pressured inconsistency on nearly everybody else within the nation – together with Metropolis themselves early within the season.

The Blues racked up an English top-flight document of 100 factors to win the title in 2018, and so they cleaned up all 4 home trophies in 2019.

They’ve nonetheless to safe the title this season, however Guardiola says the run of wins ranks up there with their different feats.

“It’s so tough,” he stated, when requested concerning the 20 wins, which have been cramed into the final ten weeks, over the hectic winter schedule.

“Twenty on this interval, on this period, with this case around the globe, to have the ability to do 20 is perhaps one of many biggest achievements now we have achieved collectively in our careers.

“A recreation each three days, with Covid conditions, harm conditions. Successful, the energy mentally.”

Guardiola loves his groups to play lovely soccer, however this time he was in awe of the sheer will which noticed them by means of in opposition to a tricky West Ham, simply three days after the Blues had a Champions League final 16 tie in opposition to Borussia Monchengladbach in Budapest.

“As we speak we didn’t paint something good,” he stated. “There are various of those video games. We didn’t create a lot however we didn’t concede something.”

The supervisor additionally stated it is crucial that his squad and the followers brace themselves for the top of that profitable run.

“We need to do it, however in the identical time we all know we’re going to end – what now we have achieved up to now is uncommon, an exception,” he stated.

“Usually you drop factors, a draw, defeats, that’s the normality in soccer.

“Three seasons in the past we received 100 factors, had been unstoppable. The second we begin run this season we’re there.

“As we speak now we have to take pleasure in it. Tomorrow once more after which put together Wolves, we don’t have time to relaxation.”