Pep Guardiola said Manchester City could not be happy at all with their season even after beating Nottingham Forest to reach the FA Cup final.
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City reach FA Cup final with Forest winGuardiola still not happy with seasonFailed in Premier League & Champions LeagueFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱WHAT HAPPENED?
City comfortably beat Forest 2-0 at Wembley to book their place in a third successive FA Cup final, becoming only the sixth club to do so. But the coach was still far from satisfied with his side's campaign, as Liverpool officially took the Premier League title off his side by hammering Tottenham 5-1 on Sunday.
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City are 21 points behind Liverpool with four games left and are due to finish the campaign with their lowest total since Guardiola became coach in 2016. They also failed to reach the last 16 of the Champions League for the first time since 2012, being hammered 6-3 by Real Madrid in the knockout play-offs after coming 22nd out of 36 teams, winning three games in total.
WHAT GUARDIOLA SAID
"Noooooooo. This season has not been good," Guardiola told a press conference. "We are a thousand million points behind Liverpool. it's not good. Look at the Champions League. We won one game? Two games? We were always a machine and we have not good but the damage will be minor. it is not going to confuse that the season has been good. The club have to take the right decisions so next season will be better.
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Guardiola began his own press conference to pay tribute to Liverpool for winning the title. He said: "Before i start, on behalf of myself and all the club we want to congratulate Liverpool Football Club for their Premier League victory. Well deserved, no doubts about that. A fantastic team. During one year, like it happened the last four years, they're going to retain the title and hopefully next season we can be better to compete until the end that this season was not possible. So congratulations to Liverpool."
