Ben Mee says Brentford will be going all out to secure qualification for the Europa Conference League when they take on Manchester City on Sunday.
The Bees are in the running to be playing in Europe next season. The London side are currently ninth in the table on 56 points heading into the final day of the Premier League season.
City have already wrapped up the top-flight title and nothing is riding on the game for Pep Guardiola's side, though they have two huge games coming up. City face Manchester United in the FA Cup final before taking on Inter Milan in the Champions League final in Istanbul.
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Brentford are two points behind Aston Villa, who sit seventh, and the two sides sandwich Tottenham Hotspur in eighth. Brentford will need to pick up three points against City and hope results elsewhere go their way to have a chance of being in Europe next season.
And Mee, who came through the youth team ranks at City, believes the Bees will be doing all they can to finish seventh when they take on his former side. He is glad City have already wrapped up the title and believes the encounter on Sunday afternoon will be a competitive one.
He said: “For us, we’ve got a chance to go into Europe. We can finish in seventh if results go our way, so we’ll obviously be raring to go and wanting to win this last game for us, and I’m sure City will want to do that as well and end a really good season for them on a high as well for their travelling fans.
“It’ll be a competitive game, it won’t be an end-of-season style game. It’ll be competitive and hopefully a good game.”
He added: “It’ll be a difficult game no matter who plays [for City], it’ll be tough for us. The structure of the group, who comes in or out of the [City] team doesn’t really matter too much, it’s going to be difficult for us.
“Hopefully we can get a result for our sakes. I’m happy there’s no title on the line and it’s already been settled."
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