Oasis legend and Manchester City fan Noel Gallagher has backed Pep Guardiola's side to win the treble this season despite being six points behind Arsenal in the Premier League. City remain in contention to win the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League this season.
Guardiola's side were in a similar position last season, but went on to only win the Premier League ahead of Liverpool as Jurgen Klopp's side missed out on a historic quadruple-winning campaign. The Gunners were knocked out of the Europa League last month and suffered domestic cup defeats to City and Brighton.
Mikel Arteta is aiming to become the first Arsenal manager to lift the Premier League title since Arsene Wenger in 2004 - nearly 20 years ago. The north Londoners still have tough tests against City at the Etihad Stadium and Newcastle at St. James' Park to come, along with a huge game against Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium next month.
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Gallagher believes City have looked ‘super focused’ in recent weeks and has backed Guardiola's side to win their first European Cup this season, along with the FA Cup and Premier League. "It looks like the players have flipped a switch now," the Oasis legend told talkSPORT after Manchester City’s impressive 3-0 victory over Bayern Munich.
"And looking in from the outside, it looks like the players have now said about the Champions League, 'We’re going to go win it this year, this is it'. I've noticed, this huddle thing that we go into after we score and before we kick-off, I've never seen that before."
When asked if City can win the treble, he said: "It looks like a flip has been switched and we're in trophy mode now, and from watching the games against Southampton and Liverpool, it looks like they are super, super focused now, and it’s real now. You better believe it!
"We’ve got Sheffield United in the FA Cup semi-final, probably Brighton [who play Man United] in the final if we get there. And then hopefully Chelsea will somehow jam it against Real Madrid and then we’ll annihilate them and play Benfica if they somehow manage to jam it into the final.
"But in all seriousness though, these are the moments you live for as a football fan, we’ve got potentially 15/16 games left, all finals. This could be it. It’s real, they can do it from here.
"Because no one has spoken about it for the last four months when usually it’s about the quadruple and all this kind of thing. Now all of a sudden, it’s like, 'Oh hang on a minute, we’re still in for this treble here' and actually watching that tonight, I wouldn’t bet against it."
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