Guardiola starting to play his mind games on Arsenal

Pep Guardiola is piling the pressure on Arsenal by insisting they are favourites to win the Premier League title as they win games late in the matches.

The Manchester City manager has watched his mentee Mikel Arteta lead Arsenal to spend most of this season atop the Premier League table.

The Citizens have been the chasers, but Arsenal does not seem fazed and has continued to deliver some of the finest performances around.

The Gunners have a five points lead over the champions with eleven matches left to play and have won most of those games with late goals.

Pep is now suggesting Arsenal could win games that way because his team have been champions several times recently and the Londoners have the extra motivation.

He says via the Daily Mail:

‘They have many years without winning the Premier League, which gives you a little bit extra to win games in 93, 96, and 98.

‘That is something they have that we don’t have because we have won back-to-back, two times.’

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Pep is trying to take the pressure off his players, which is a very good tactic as the Spaniard knows the mind games could affect Arsenal.

However, our players have shown they have the best mindset and are equipped to triumph at the end of the season.

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19 Comments

  1. Putting the mind games aside, I was not too impressed with the City performance against Palace, who could well have dug out a point has it not been for silly penalty given away by their right winger.Apart from Rodri who ran the show they played a back four of centre backs.Little wonder that their “full backs”,namely Stones and Akke were unable to create much in the Palace half and I know for a fact that many City supporters are clamouring for natural attacking full backs for next season With Walkers personal problems and Cancello having been sent on loan after “disagreements” with Pep, all is not rosy in the City camp.Funny how pundits never seem to raise these issues when they analyise City performances as though they were on a different level from all others in the EPL.Well let’s hope they all get egg on their faces at the end of the season as the present Man City are not by any means unbeatable..

    1. Very well made points GRANDAD. It is surely plain to all serious City watchers that their play this season isnt anywhere near as fluid as for many years previously.

      I think playing HAALAND AS A STRIKER, WHO ONLY CONTRIBUTES TO ANY EFFECT IN THE BOX IS A MISTAKE BY PEP.
      Yes he has scoered many, BUT the team – and it is always the team, NOT any single player which most counts – has NOT scored more than previously.

      And WITH Haarland, they lack the cohesion around the box they had previously.
      Unlike , say KANE, Haaland is very one dimensional. Their defence is also far weaker than before,

    2. Not surprising.I believe most neutrals would like Arsenal to win the epl.
      The problem is Arsenal will invariably be facing many obstacles.
      The establishment would like MC to continue its dominance in the face of wide spread opposition.
      The Bundesliga ,Serie A and La liga are mon competitive and doesnt provide excitement

    1. YES, INDEED HE SHOULD! i hear he had a lie in this morning and is quite lazy about turning up to work. Doesn’t take his work at all seriously!

      Of course, I MAY be wrong!

  2. The mind game worked for them against man u but for us it will not work and we have won the EPL more than them Pep even know. after all we are not going to look back at what they are doing, all what we going to do is to look forward in to how we shall win the next game.

    1. FACTUALLY WRONG! We have won it fewer times then they have! But either way it is completely irrelevant!

  3. I watched the clip from Hayters TV and he actually says ’96, sorry I mean 98 minutes’ implying that we were assisted by the referee and given extra time to find the winner against Bournemouth, ignoring the fact that they time wasted in the first minute of added time, let alone through out the game so the ref was right to add more time but Arteta won’t rise to it anyway.

  4. Mind games? If we beat Palace, that will give us a 8 point lead and could be the pivotal point of the season.
    Just keep winning our games and let Pep and city worry about catching us.
    As Grandad said above, they were really unimpressive against Palace and could easily have dropped a further two points.

    1. KEN, “if,” “could be,”!! YES,we woulf have an eight point lead if we beat PALACE.

      But though you seem not to allow it, ALL games, both for us and for City are pivotal, until the title is decided.

      Why do you insist in picking out JUST the PALACE GAME THEN?

      A would be eight point lead, when they would have a game in hand and still to play us at their place, cannot possible be any more pivotal than any other game still to come also is.

      1. Because, Jon, city are playing in the CL this week and the FA cup q/f this Saturday, while their game in hand will be Liverpools away.
        We have, of course, SLisbon and then Palace.

        Now I see it as pivotal, not only for the PL, but in city’s season and quest for the treble…. putting immense strain on their players both physically and mentally.

        I fully expect us to win both games, using our, now, fully fit squad (apart from Elneny) and that eight point gap, will seem enormous to a city side who, perhaps, will have seen two of the three prizes disappear.

        That’s why I see this Sunday as pivotal in the PL.

        1. KEN wEll I am not preparew drto arguew this rather subjective matter further You have you view and I have mine which is fine for us both. I only HOPE hwt you say proves to betrue though I doubt thatCity willbe as easily brushed aside as you seen to think likely. Pivotal of course simply means CRUCIAL, to lesser educated Gooners.
          If all 38 games are not crucial, then why do we bother playing them!

          I will finally say this though; any game, which IF we won it, would mean City could not then catch us, WOULD CERTAINLY BE CRUCIAL(pivotal).

  5. We shouldn’t fear the consequences but go game by game. We’ve had a fantastic season regardless of the outcome; so much joy and enthusiasm; I love it.

      1. Lmaoo… Seriously Mr Jon fox, you really should be an english teacher.
        I wonder if there is anything called grammar police. Lol

  6. Gunnerz are winning the league 2023 is the start off Artetas and Edus plans the rotation off youth and keeping the team youthful means that Arsenal want to hold onto they talent for years they will dominate its just finding the right young hungry to be a star player to replace the aging Star and Arteta and Edu are great at finding the unknown gifted talent and has long has the manager and buyer agree and have the same mind set which is the present ane future they will erase pass mistakes i see the Gunnerz dominate in the premier league for a long time has long has those 2 to stay on the same mindset

  7. For me I see it as a compliment whereby he is saying if we continue with this mentality, the never say its over until it’s over, it would be difficult to stop us.
    There’s also added pressure on City not to drop any points.
    Many are looking at the game @ Etihad which City ought to win against Arsenal and which in my opinion should be easy for Arsenal to plan.
    Just play for a draw because pressure will be on City to win @ all costs.

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