Even the most glass-half-empty supporter would be hard pressed to come up with a Manchester City performance better than what we saw against Real Madrid on Tuesday night.
Man City extra games are helping them in the Premier League title race
12.04.2022 - 00:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Manchester City players do not have time to worry about the Premier League title race because they are too busy preparing for games in other competitions, according to Kevin De Bruyne.
Pep Guardiola's side are one point ahead of Liverpool in the league with seven games to go after a barnstorming meeting at the Etihad on Sunday ended in a 2-2 draw that leaves the competition on a knife-edge. After the match that was seen as a title decider failed to separate the sides, the pressure on each remaining fixture will be hyped up as the two teams look set for a repeat of the 2018/19 finale that went to the final minutes of the season.
Each team has more than just the league to play for too; Liverpool are also looking to add the Champions League and FA Cup to their Carabao Cup win in what would be an unprecedented Quadruple, while City can still match the Treble famously won by United in 1999. At least one of those dreams will be over next weekend when the pair meet again at Wembley for a place in the FA Cup final.
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Before then, they each have the second leg of a Champions League quarter-final to contend with. The schedule makes for a hectic end to the calendar as both sides hunt for trophies, but De Bruyne thinks that the need to focus on so many games stops the players from getting distracted by all the attention that the rest of the country is giving to the title race.
"Even if you wanted to, you don't have the time to think about it," he said. "Monday is a recovery day, Tuesday we leave for Madrid and it is the same for the cup game. It would have been nice to think about the end of the season but you don't get the time. That is maybe a good
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