Premier League: "if we win, fate will be in our hands", Guardiola increases the pressure before Arsenal-Manchester City

Guardiola raises the sauce. While acknowledging that the winner of Manchester City's match with Arsenal on Wednesday will have "his destiny in his hands" in the Premier League title race, City manager Pep Guardiola said on Tuesday that the match was "not not decisive”.

“Now we know exactly what we are playing for. It took several months to reach this phase of the championship and have our chances in hand, ”acknowledged the Catalan.

“Obviously they also want to have their chances in their hands because if they win, everything will depend on them. Their fate will be in their hands. But if we win, fate will be in our hands,” he explained.

The Gunners currently have five points more than the holders, but they have played two games more. City could therefore theoretically be ahead of them by one unit.

If Arsenal win at the Etihad, which they haven't done since 2015, before Pep arrived on the City bench, they will be eight points clear, but with a fairly tough final schedule, which relativizes the weight of Wednesday's match.

"It's a very, very important match because we can take points and our biggest rival might not take any," he admitted, but it's "not decisive because it there are still a lot of complicated matches to play, ”he said.

After this match, there are 5 league games left for the Londoners and 7 for City who are also still in contention in the semi-final of the Champions League against Real Madrid and for the final of the FA Cup, at the beginning of June, against Manchester United.

Arsenal remain on three disappointing draws which have snuffed out their lead, while Manchester are unbeaten in their last nine Premier League meetings, eight of which have been won.