Manchester Town supervisor Pep Guardiola says he blames himself for the membership’s terrible run of shape.
Town, who’ve received the Premier League identify for the previous 4 years and in six of the previous seven, are 14 issues in the back of leaders Liverpool.
A 2-0 win at Leicester on Sunday was once simplest their 2nd victory in 14 suits.
It’s the worst run of a massively a hit managerial occupation taking in spells at Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
“There are lots of, many stuff [involved in being a manager] and I ignored one thing – one thing It’s not that i am doing smartly,” stated Guardiola, who has been on the membership for 9 seasons.
“In spite of everything, whilst you lose numerous video games it’s a fantastic accountability for the chief to take. There’s something the staff wishes and self assurance and I used to be now not ready to do it.
“The decision is on me first, it is not the gamers. They naturally drop a bit bit and that’s commonplace. It came about a bit bit ultimate season as smartly.”
Town have had sluggish begins to seasons prior to – and trailed the leaders by means of six issues or extra in every of the previous 4 title-winning campaigns – however they have got by no means been this unhealthy.
“With this consistency [of results] I will have to have discovered it, and for this reason we are on this place,” Guardiola stated.
“I blame [myself]. It isn’t to mention, ‘oh how great is Pep’ – it is the reality. I lead that crew of gamers and I may now not carry them. That is the truth.”
Town have suffered many accidents this season – together with to Ballon d’Or-winning midfielder Rodri – which Guardiola has time and again highlighted.
“We have been the one unbeaten staff in Europe [until 30 October] and best of the league, however right away we went down, for accidents, many stuff now we have mentioned,” he stated.
“However, even with that, I will have to have discovered a solution to recover effects.”
The champions host West Ham at 15:00 GMT on Saturday.
