Pep Guardiola looks ahead to Premier League climax after Manchester City's victory over Nottingham Forest in FA Cup - 'Now we have four finals'
Published 27/04/2025 at 21:16 GMT+1
Pep Guardiola believes all of Manchester City's remaining Premier League games are finals. The City boss spoke after guiding his side to a 2-0 victory over Nottingham Forest in the semi-final of the FA Cup. City will face Wolverhampton Wanderers, Southampton, Bournemouth and Fulham in their remaining Premier League games and they also have an FA Cup final against Crystal Palace to look ahead to.
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Pep Guardiola believes Manchester City's four remaining Premier League games are all finals after they reached the FA Cup final with a 2-0 victory over Nottingham Forest.
Guardiola's side maintained their recent resurgence at Wembley, reaching their third FA Cup final in a row thanks to goals from Rico Lewis and Josko Gvardiol.
City are currently on track to qualify for next season's UEFA Champions League despite a difficult season that has seen them relinquish their Premier League title to new champions Liverpool.
They are currently fourth in the table, but with matches against Wolverhampton Wanderers, Southampton, Bournemouth and Fulham to come, Guardiola insists everything is still to play for.
"Seven semi-finals in a row and three finals in a row, not bad," he told ITV. "A few months ago, the ball goes inside the post. It goes one side or the other side.
"Everything is in the head, in the minds of the players. We are in the final, so if you said three years ago you would reach three FA Cup finals in a row, come on. It's amazing.
"Now we have four finals to go in the Premier League and we have to recover and go again against Wolves."
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City opened the scoring in the second minute of the match, but Forest had their chances to get back in the game.
After going 2-0 down, Morgan Gibbs-White hit the crossbar and the post to cap a dramatic conclusion to the match.
Guardiola was full of praise for Nuno Espirito Santo's side, who he believes have been better than City in the Premier League this term.
"It was a good start," he added. "The way we played we did not allow them to make many transitions where they are so dangerous.
"They also did not arrive much in the final third with the crosses with Wood and so on.
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"In the game they had chances. This is a team that, with a game in hand, is better than us in the Premier League. They created a bit more than in the game we played there one or two months ago [in the Premier League].
"They are a great team. In general, I liked most of the things that we did."
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