Manchester City are one win away from winning a fourth straight Premier League title (Picture: Getty)
Pep Guardiola has warned his players they cannot expect any favours from Everton on what promises to a thrilling final day of the Premier League season.
Manchester City stand on the brink of an unprecedented fourth title in succession if they beat West Ham on Sunday and render whatever Arsenal do against the Toffees irrelevant.
For their part, Arsenal must beat Sean Dyche’s men and hope for what would be the most unexpected of slips from a relentless City team who have been faultless during the run-in.
Guardiola, however, is steeling himself for a stern test against the Hammers in a game that represents David Moyes’ last match in charge.
In order to make history, the City boss insists he will tell his players they must get the job done themselves as they can ‘forget’ about the prospect of Everton being good enough to take points off the Gunners.
‘If you think Everton are going to do something [against Arsenal] tomorrow, forget about it,’ said Guardiola at his pre-match press conference.
They [Man City’s players] know it’s win or win, otherwise Arsenal will be Premier League Champions.’
Erling Haaland’s two goals against Tottenham have put Man City in pole position to win the title (Picture: Getty)
Ilkay Gundogan was the Man City hero on the final day two years ago when his goals helped complete a dramatic comeback against Aston Villa (Picture: Getty)
On the prospect of facing West Ham, he added: ‘We would like to be 3-0 up after 10 minutes but that’s not going to happen.
‘I’m ready for it to be a tough, tough game. I want to put in the mind of the players, ‘look at Tottenham [on Tuesday], how they fought for every ball’.
‘[West Ham] will be ready to beat us. I don’t have any doubt about that. It was the same with Aston Villa two years ago – they were in the same position, they didn’t have anything to play for – and we know what happened.
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“Our people have to come here and be ready from the first minute, to be with us and do it together.
‘Even if we don’t win it, [the players] have been so fine in this period. Still we are here together, nothing’s going to change.
‘But if you ask all the Premier League teams at the beginning of the season what would be the better position in the last game of the season, we are in the best position. That’s for sure. We have one game left, destiny’s in our hands.’
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