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The series winner Pep Guardiola would consider that Manchester City ended among the first four as an 'Wow' achievement due to the difficulties they have faced this season.
Guardiola has raised 57 trophies as a player and manager, but his team faces Liverpool tomorrow to the leaders of the Premier League for 17 points due to chronic injuries and the loss of the shape of the star players.
Rodri, John Stones and Manuel Akanji are absent in the long term, and Erling Haaland (knee) is a doubt.
The key players, including Kevin de Bruyne, Ruben Dias and Nathan Ake, have lost the pieces of the campaign and the Kyle Walker pattern left towards AC Milan after fighting.
Asked by Mail Sport if he could be proud of a third or fourth place, Guardiola replied: 'Incredible. Wow. 100 percent will be a great achievement. Let's have dinner, I invite you. You choose the restaurant, payment!
'The goal is to qualify for the Champions League. It would be a great success. My mentality is that we will do it, but the reality will dictate where we are.
Pep Guardiola insists that an end among the top four would be a “great achievement” for Man City this term
The city has been hindered by a dip in the form of the key players, as well as the long -term absent
Citizens face Liverpool on Sunday to look for three points of the League leaders
Guardiola urged his players not to hide from the current reality, with the FA Cup the only remaining covers that the club could win.
“I told them:” Try to be here, “he added.
'I could not spend the last years of my life thinking the first time we fight, I didn't care. No, I'm here until the end.
Manchester City receives the leaders of the Premier League Liverpool tomorrow seeking to take three points of a team with which they have just at the top of the table.
While they carry a good domestic form to the contest, they will have to recover from continental anguish after being abandoned from the Champions League by Real Madrid in the middle of the week, courtesy of a twinkling hat-trick of Kylian Mbappe.