Guardiola plays down treble talk after Man City reach FA Cup final

Guardiola plays down treble talk after Man City reach FA Cup final

Pep Guardiola has played down talk of Manchester City winning a domestic treble despite reaching the final of the FA Cup by beating Southampton.

City came from behind to win at Wembley thanks to goals from Jeremy Doku and Nico Gonzalez.

But having already won the Carabao Cup and currently sitting three points behind Arsenal in the Premier League with a game in hand, Guardiola says it is still too early to talk about a treble.

“It’s too far away,” he said. “Before the final, before the Aston Villa game, I would tell you it was a chance. Now it’s far, far away.

“Now it’s important we have three days off for the players. I told them, don’t think about football, rest. Now we start a season for five games plus the final, the FA Cup. Premier League, I would say it’s almost gone. Now we’re back second. We’ll see how we arrive.

“Six games, like every game we win, we’ll be there, we lose, it’s over.

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“People say how many Champions Leagues and how many this and that. What defines that club is when you win five Carabaos and you play four finals in a row in the FA Cup. That defines it.

“Always you have a bad afternoon, we say many times. A bad day, injures, you cannot be there.

“Always we were there. That’s what I said to the players. Imagine now we start next season and only one team for the next four years will arrive four times in the final of the FA Cup. Apparently it’s not easy.