When Manchester City return from the international break, there will be no time to gradually get back up to speed and build rhythm — the fixture Gods have chucked Pep Guardiola's team right in at the deep end.
Between April 5th and 16th City will face Atletico Madrid twice in the Champions League quarter-finals and Liverpool twice, once in a potential league title-deciding game at the Etihad Stadium and once in the FA Cup semi-final.
City will likely do well in at least some of those matches, but regardless, the 11-day period is going to be hell for supporters. Us Blues are a pessimistic lot, so the prospect of huge games against a team as good as Liverpool and a notoriously tough European heavyweight in such a short space of time is rather daunting.
