The second best placed team in the league can only aspire to collect a total of 84 points, so the title is very close to City
Defeated for the first time in 2021 last weekend, Manchester City returned to the field to show that the defeat against United was just an accident on the road to winning the title. First league.
Team Pep Guardiola hosted Southampton, being the first of the last ten games left to end the 2020-21 campaign of First league.
Although it is true that 28 undefeated matches and 21 victories ended, The city is now fighting for something “simple”: to be champion as soon as possible. But how long will those led by Guardiola take to win the most coveted trophy in English football?
Manchester City have 65 points (before facing Southampton), 11 points above Manchester United, 12 more than Leicester City and 15 more than Chelsea, clubs that are at the top of the table.
The second best placed team in the championship can only aspire to collect a total of 84 points, which means that City needs 20 units to guarantee the title without depending on any result.
the city of Manchester you could look for six wins and two draws, or five wins and five draws, or seven wins to break the 20-point barrier. This, of course, in a scenario in which Manchester United wins all the remaining games, which is difficult, but not impossible, as Guardiola pointed out.
“Nobody expected us to win 21 games, so anything can happen. United, of course, can still be champions. There are ten games left and we have to win six or seven to be champions. We will try to win the first now, “said the Catalan strategist.
Besides Southampton, City will face Fulham (away), Leicester (away), Leeds United (home), Aston Villa (away), Crystal Palace (away), Chelsea (home), Newcastle United (away), Brighton (away) ) and Everton (local).
The United schedule is as follows: West Ham (home), Brighton (home), Tottenham (away), Burnley (home), Leeds (away), Liverpool (home), Aston Villa (away), Leicester (home), Fulham (home) ) and Wolverhampton (visitor).