Pep Guardiola ‘doesn’t care’ if Manchester City do not win the Premier League

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has declared that he ‘doesn’t care’ if his side don’t win the Premier League title following Saturday’s loss to Manchester United.

City suffered a second successive defeat as United controversially moved within one point of the reigning Premier League champions in the table.

Arsenal could move eight points clear of the Sky Blues if they beat Spurs on Sunday, as City’s hopes of a hat-trick of Premier League titles suffered a significant blow at Old Trafford.

Jack Grealish gave City the lead with a header, however late goals from Bruno Fernandes and Marcus Rashford completed a 2-1 comeback victory for the home side, as City dropped points once again.

Controversy surrounds United’s equalising goal, as match referee Stuart Attwell deemed that Marcus Rashford hadn’t interfered with play in the build-up to Fernandes’ strike.

Reacting to the defeat post-match, Pep Guardiola seemingly conceded City’s chances of winning the Premier League title for a fifth time under his management.

“I don’t care if the Premier League and Carabao Cup we cannot win, we have won a lot. It’s not a problem,” said the Catalan.

“Problem is behaviour, perform like we have done. Carabao Cup is out, it doesn’t matter, we didn’t perform how we are. Today we perform. Now, don’t be distracted what happened today in the first goal, Focus on Spurs in a few days.”

The Blues crashed out of the Carabao Cup after a shock 2-0 loss to Southampton in midweek, and face a challenging fixture against Spurs at the Etihad Stadium on Thursday.