With the Premier League almost assured, the `Cityzens' now concentrate on the Champions League

Manchester City, directed by Pep Guardiola, is performing one of the best seasons in its history. The club leads the English Premier League with a wide lead over second place team and just become champion of the League Cup.

UEFA Champions League has become the main objective of the club, so the team secured the quarter-finals after thrashing the visitor FC Basel. Manchester City expects to achieve glory and greatness as it has dreamed, especially, since it has the financial support of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, owner of the club since 2008.

Millions of reasons to be the best

Billionaire sheik of UAE and Manchester City owner, Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has undertaken to grant the necessary technical tools to Pep Guardiola to lead the team to the top of English soccer and to fight the most important club competition in the world.

Since Guardiola took over the technical direction of Manchester City in July 2016, the club has made the largest investment in its history. Approximately 520 million euros the owner has paid to position the club as one of the favorites of the continent. Laporte, Mendy, Walker, Danilo, Bernardo Silva, Stones, Sane, Gabriel Jesus, Gündoğan, and Claudio Bravo are some of the millionaires signings made by the Manchester City since the arrival of Pep Guardiola.

The process bears fruits

During two seasons, Guardiola has led Manchester City, and he has consolidated a precise soccer process, which focuses on capturing the idea of the coach in the game system. Guardiola, considered as one of the best coaches in history, succeed with his acclaimed game system at FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich. However, in the `Cityzens', the coach did not get success so easily.

Guardiola arrived in July 2016 to Manchester City, but only after 602 days he managed to get his first title: the League Cup. This victory was achieved on 25 February at Wembley, after thrashing Arsenal. Guardiola took much longer to win a title with Manchester than winning a title with his previous clubs. However, it seems that his gaming system achieved the best season of his current club.

The chances of Manchester City win the Premier League are extremely high, it is the undisputed leader with a considerable difference in points over the second classified. It is also the highest scoring team in the league and is one of the teams with the meanest fence. If that were not enough, the team has two of the top four scorers in the league: Sergio Aguero and Raheem Sterling. Similarly, the squad has the two best assistants in the championship: Kevin De Bruyne and Leroy Sane.

The scenario is similar in the UEFA Champions League. In the group stage, Guardiola's team got 15 points from 18 possible. In the second round, the team thrashed FC Basel by four goals to zero, ensuring its qualification for quarters phase.

In the FA Cup, the squad suffered a dishonorable elimination at the hands of Wigan, a third English team division. However, it knew how to recover itself and was champion of the League Cup against Arsenal. The process of Guardiola and his players is beginning to bear fruits, because they got a title and the English league seems to be their next victory.

Manchester City in the Premiership seems to have no rival, which, if nothing extraordinary does not happen, will be owned by the `Cityzens' at the end of the season. This team has had a splendid season and it hopes to obtain the most important club trophy. The team will have ahead rivals of a historic greatness. Will the Manchester City achieve glory and grandeur at the end of the season?

LatinAmerican Post | Javier Aldana
Translated from “ Manchester City y el camino a la gloria”