Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says the Premier League title race is "alive" after Arsenal's draw at Liverpool on Sunday.
Guardiola was speaking today ahead of their Champions League quarterfinal against Bayern Munich.
"Being again in the quarter-finals in Europe is a moment to enjoy," he told reporters. In September, October, November I enjoy less. When we arrive in the last stages, fighting for the title, I'm the happiest man in the world. I love to be here.
What's going to happen? I don't know. [If we're] going to win, everything is going to be perfect. If we lose, we will be a failure. Nothing is going to change. The day after, [there will be a] sunrise. We will try it again in the future.
This is the mindset we will need to do. We have done it in the past, that's why I'm incredibly happy with the players I have. The club we are. Everyone is pushing to be better and get better and better. That's why we are here."
The title race will likely go down to the final week and Guardiola continued: Yeah, we know that feeling, I said many times. We lose a game, we lose the Premier League. Playing with that on top of us and in September and October you cannot have that feeling.
You say: 'okay, we can drop points or whatever', and after you find seasons like Liverpool were unstoppable and now like Arsenal are unstoppable. They make a lot of points.
Now, I have the feeling and that everyone knows that if we lose or drop today points here, Leicester or, of course, Arsenal, we have no chance. Still, we are there. [There are] Many games to play. What's important is we are still alive in three competitions.
I like it, you go to war thinking 'if we beat Leicester we are still alive'. 'If we win against Arsenal we are still alive.' Going there thinking: 'nothing to do', it gets worse."