For Pep Guardiola, Manchester City is not the best team in the world

Pep Guardiola leaves no one indifferent. That’s why his press conferences are always so interesting, and Wednesday’s was no exception. After their 2-0 win against Brentfordwhich meant the thirteenth consecutive victory of the Manchester Citythe coach was asked if he considered his team the best in the world. The one from Sampedor responded emphatically: “No, we are not the best”, and took the opportunity to point out two teams, to the general surprise.

“The best team is Chelsea, who won the Champions League, or River Plate, who won the Copa Libertadores,” Guardiola explained. But he quickly wanted to downplay the matter: “Things like this, like who’s the best, don’t interest me. The important thing is the match we have in three days against Norwich and we have to win again.”. That predisposition has taken his team to first place in the Premier League, with 60 points from 24 games.

Far away is Chelsea, 13 points below Manchester City. And the only one with options is Liverpool, which is 12 points behind the citizens, but has played two games less, so it could be only six points. Hence Guardiola’s concern to keep some of his players on alert, who before the match against Burnley went out partying and ended up fined by City itself. “We have fined them because they had not invited me”, summed up the coach gracefully, in another conference to remember. (D)