Pep Guardiola insisted the Premier League title race stays open regardless of Manchester City being held to a 2-2 draw by Nottingham Forest.
Metropolis twice moved in entrance via Antoine Semenyo and Rodri, solely to be pegged again on every event as Forest claimed a degree of their combat to keep away from relegation.
The consequence ended Metropolis’s six-match successful run and leaves them seven factors adrift of Arsenal, albeit with a sport in hand and a house fixture towards the leaders nonetheless to return.
With 9 league matches remaining, Guardiola’s focus was firmly on the street forward quite than the hole on the prime.
“[There are] nonetheless many video games to play, them one much less,” he mentioned. “Now it’s Newcastle (within the FA Cup) and I all the time take into consideration what’s subsequent.
“If we analyse then generally it was a very good efficiency and there have been many good issues. In fact we’ve got issues we are able to enhance however generally fairly good.
“There are video games that perhaps we don’t deserve it however right this moment we play generally good for greater than 90 minutes.
“Okay you can’t cease the transition or lengthy balls – it’s not about this motion or the opposite motion, generally we performed nicely.
“They had been so defensive and are a very good workforce. We had been dynamic.
“Perhaps we miss contact with Erling and his unbelievable actions, we’ve got to search for him just a little bit extra. However other than that, generally it was okay.”
Erling Haaland returned to the beginning XI after lacking the win over Leeds with a knock and was concerned in a contentious second when a penalty enchantment was waved away. Guardiola refused to criticise the officers.
“At all times I imagine we’ve got to do it a lot better to ensure the officers don’t intervene,” he mentioned.
“It’s our duty to be higher. If we’ve got to depend on them it’s unimaginable. Nothing extra to say.”
