{"id":12262,"date":"2025-03-15T18:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T19:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/?p=12262"},"modified":"2025-03-15T20:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T20:38:56","slug":"pep-guardiola-rates-man-citys-top-four-chances-after-brighton-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/pep-guardiola-rates-man-citys-top-four-chances-after-brighton-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola rates Man City\u2019s top four chances after Brighton draw"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guardiola and his side were held to a draw on Saturday (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pep Guardiola<\/a> is still confident Manchester City<\/a> will finish in the top four and qualify for next season\u2019s Champions League<\/a> despite another slip-up against Brighton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

City had the chance to move back into the top four on Saturday afternoon at home to Brighton.<\/p>\n

Last season\u2019s champions<\/a> twice took the lead through Erling Haaland and Omar Marmoush but the Seagulls twice drew level with the hosts unable to find a winner.<\/p>\n

The draw leaves Guardiola\u2019s side sat in fifth place, a point behind fourth place Chelsea who can pull away with victory over Arsenal on Sunday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Nottingham Forest meanwhile tightened their grip on third, moving away from the chasing pack with a  thumping win over Ipswich.<\/p>\n

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Just four points separate Chelsea, City, Newcastle, Brighton and Aston Villa in the race for fourth.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unfamiliar territory for the team who have won the last four Premier League titles with Guardiola admitting post-match there was real anxiety around the Etihad amongst home supporters.   <\/p>\n

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City twice led at the Eithad (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018Yes definitely,\u2019 Guardiola said. \u2018Everybody feels the pressure.<\/p>\n

\u2018But it is what it is. We have to play better and after they will be back.<\/p>\n

\u2018In the good moments they are there but, of course, they feel it when it is not good.\u2019<\/p>\n

City have nine games of their league campaign remaining, including a trip to Old Trafford to take on neighbours Manchester United on 6 April.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m always confident \u2013 in that I am a master. I do have moments (when) I can doubt but I find the right way, the positiveness in everything.<\/p>\n

\u2018I know it will be difficult for many reasons but we have nine games, nine finals.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Brighton left Manchester with a point (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

City are still fighting in the FA Cup, taking on Bournemouth in thew quarter-finals at the end of March.<\/p>\n

But winning the competition is only good enough to secure qualification for the Europa League, as Manchester United benefitted from last year.<\/p>\n

City will be aiming higher having not missed out on Europe\u2019s premier competition since first qualifying for the competition in the 2010-11 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guardiola and his side were held to a draw on Saturday (Picture: Getty) Pep Guardiola is still confident Manchester City will finish in the top four and qualify for next season\u2019s Champions League despite another slip-up against Brighton. City had the chance to move back into the top four on Saturday afternoon at home to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12268,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions\/12268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}