Guardiola will try to avoid the worst streak of his career at Brighton

Pep Guardiola The Manchester City coach, tomorrow, when he visits Brighton in the Premier League, faces the prospect of stringing together four successive defeats for the first time in his award-winning coaching career.

The ‘citizens’, champions of England for the past four seasons, were eliminated in the round of 16 of the League Cup by Tottenham (2-0), then fell to Bournemouth on Andoni Iraola in the league championship (2-1) and on Tuesday Portuguese Sporting defeated them in the Champions League (4-1).

The reason to be optimistic

Guardiola is optimistic that City, who are two points behind Liverpool after surrendering the Premier League lead at the weekend, can correct course tomorrow as it considers its squad to be solid for many stages of a three-game losing streak.

“There is always a first time (to lose four times in a row), let’s hope that’s not the case,” Guardiola said today at a press conference. “In twenty minutes against Fulham we were not good (a tight 3-2 win), against Bournemouth we were not good, but the rest of the games we were good. We are ok. Let’s see what happens,” he assured.

Six winless in their first season

Although Guardiola has never lost four games in a row as a coach, City did go six games in a row without a win in his first season leading the team, in 2016-17.

Guardiola never recovered John Stones, Rúben Dias, or Jack Grealish, which despite this was called by the English internal coach Lee Carsleybut Kevin de Bruyne He played in the final minutes against Sporting after a month and a half out with muscle problems.

With his contract set to expire at the end of this season, Guardiola He was asked if he planned to travel to Abu Dhabi to meet the owners of the City during the international break. “No,” he answered sparingly. Pep signed his last two renewals in November taking advantage of the national team’s match windows.