Blues continue to push up standards in hunt for fourth title on the bounce
Manchester Evening News|May 02, 2024
IT doesn't feel like City have been quite as good this season.
SIMON BAJKOWSKI
Blues continue to push up standards in hunt for fourth title on the bounce

That is, of course, relative, coming from a year where they became just the second English team in history to win a Treble. Other factors have to be taken into consideration too, such as long-term injuries to Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne.

Pep Guardiola would probably disagree too, having criticised reactions that he saw as over the top when City went through a winless streak earlier in the season. 'Quite similar' is how the manager has responded whenever comparisons have been made to the play this year and before.

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