Second-placed City have been chasing Premier League leaders Arsenal’s for months, and Sunday’s 2-1 win at Liverpool kept them within six points of the top of the table.
“Every time over the past weeks and months when I go before the game for an interview, (it’s) always if you lose you are losing everything and are going to disappear from the planet earth and stuff,” Guardiola told reporters on Tuesday, a day before City host Fulham.
“So what I am saying is what do you have to do to beat Fulham?,” he asked.
City, seeking their seventh English top-flight title in Guardiola’s decade-long tenure, have won only two of their last seven league games, allowing Arsenal to pull further ahead with four wins in the same period.
“The distance is not huge but considering how Arsenal is doing, six points is a lot. Next game against a team like (Fulham) who every year is better and better, so we’ll see,” Guardiola said.
City had to dig deep to snatch a 5-4 win at Fulham in December, and Guardiola praised the way the London side have improved under Marco Silva since earning their promotion to the Premier League in 2022.
–Reuters–
