City travel to Arsenal having won all of our previous 10 Premier League games and record-breaking winning streaks have been a theme of the defending champions’ previous title triumphs.
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In 2017-18, Guardiola’s men won 18 consecutive Premier League games en route to the Catalan’s first championship with the Club, whilst last season we recorded 21 successive victories in all competitions to set a new English top-flight record.
However, the City boss feels it would be unwise for his squad to become distracted with thoughts of repeating such runs and says a game by game approach is the best way to tackle the season.
“I am not thinking about the runs. I am not thinking about what is going to happen in the future,” he said ahead of City’s game against Arsenal.
“I am thinking what’s next. The great teams think what’s next.
“Thinking about long runs is a stupid thing to think about. Think about what is next, be ready and the most important thing is the desire and the commitment.
“The team has said ‘I want to do it. I want to go there and try to win the game’. Everyone has made an incredible contribution and that is why we are where we are.
“It is an unexpected situation. I didn’t expect one month ago, when we were four, five, six points behind Chelsea and Liverpool to be in this position, but there are 54 points [to play for].
“The run is going to finish. Sooner or later we are going to lose a game. It is going to happen, but be calm, relax and try again in the next game.
“Don’t be extremely satisfied when the situation is going good, or extremely depressed [when we lose].
“With this amount of games and competitions, I learned last season with the Covid situation, that being relaxed is the best way to approach the next one.”
