Guardiola’s Premier League champions have two more trophies in their sights
At the start of this year, Manchester City had a “rough” few weeks, said Sam Lee on The Athletic. Their Premier League campaign was stuttering (at one point in January they were eight points adrift of Arsenal), and on 11 January they were dumped out of the Carabao Cup by relegation-bound Southampton. Even more concerning for manager Pep Guardiola was that “word of disharmony in the Manchester City camp had spread far and wide”. He himself acknowledged this, referring in interviews to the poor “body language” and “mood of his players”. How things have turned around since then. Last weekend, having won their previous 12 Premier League matches, City were crowned champions for the third year in succession. And with the FA Cup final against Manchester United on 3 June and the Champions League final against Inter on 10 June, their season has every chance of getting better still. Should City claim both titles, they will become only the second English club after Man Utd to win a treble. Their status as “one of the best sides in history” will at that point be beyond dispute.
