"We won in Liverpool and Arsenal this season."
Shortly after the complete victory in Everton, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola expressed the joy of winning 'Goodison Park', referring to rival teams such as leading Liverpool (76 points) and second-place Arsenal (63 points).
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Manchester City won 2-0 in the 33rd round of the English Premier League (EPL) away to Everton at Goodison Park in Liverpool on the 19th (Korea time) thanks to consecutive goals in the 39th minute of the second half and Matteo Kovacic in the second half. "'20-year-old Shinsung' O'Reilly emerged as Manchester City's best young star in the second half of the league by taking over Matheus Nunes' kill pass from the right side in the 39th minute of the second half when the score was 0-0. Thanks to the victory, Manchester City, which had no loss in five games (three wins and two draws), rose to fourth place in the league (58 points), turning on the blue light for the Championship in a tight top-four battle. Third place is Newcastle with 59 points, and Nottingham and Aston Villa with 57 points each. From now on, the remaining five games are a thin ice race for the top four in every game.
In a press conference right after the game, Guardiola said he was behind Liverpool and Arsenal, who had been challenging Manchester City to win the league in recent years, but expected that the clean sheet complete victory that he got from the tomb of the away game would be a great help to advance to the European Champions League in the future. Manchester City beat Arsenal in 2023 and 2024 to lift the trophy, while Liverpool was the only team that prevented Manchester City from winning the Premier League for the seventh consecutive time by winning the 2019-2020 season. However, Liverpool drew 2-2 away from Everton this season, and lost 0-2 away from Everton last season. Arsenal also scored the first goal in Everton's away game on the 5th but drew 1-1.
Asked how big the win was today, Guardiola said "I want to say it's big." We had to be very smart. Liverpool couldn't win here, Arsenal couldn't win. A tremendously important victory..." he added. Everton will leave historic Benue Goodison Park this summer and move to the new stadium in Bremley-Moore Dog. After winning his last trip to Goodison Park, Guardiola said "It's been an honor to be here at Goodison Park for a long time"Wow, watching all the goals in Goodison Park through the screen in the stadium before today's game 'Wow! I thought this was English football" was also quoted as saying. "I still perfectly remember when my friend Ronald Koeman smashed me with Romelo Lukaku 0-4 when I first came here. That was the beginning of our incredible adventure and since then we've been alive, living like this for almost a decade," he recalled.
Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gündogan told BBC Radio 5 Live after the win over Everton that `We had to work really hard. This stadium is always a hard place to play because the way you play is tricky. "I had to be careful because I didn't want to take too many risks at first. We came out to perform in the second half and we did the job in a great way. It was well deserved to earn three points", expressing satisfaction.
Manchester City, which has been undefeated in five league games, will face Aston Villa in sixth place at 4 a.m. on the 23rd.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
