While the Manchester City squad have been full of exuberance in the exact way you want for such a week, it hasn’t been so free and easy at Arsenal. They had a high-stakes Champions League quarter-final against Sporting, for one.
Some on the Arsenal side felt there was a typical edge to Pep Guardiola’s words on Sunday, when he mentioned how European elimination has freshened City’s preparations. Such comments are all the more conspicuous given how it was a new Guardiola gameplan that won the Carabao Cup final, that has only fed into all of this noise around Arsenal.
