Our 2-1 victory over Fulham saw us leapfrog over Arsenal, with the Gunners not playing until Tuesday night when they are at home to Chelsea.
The first of our two games in hand comes 24 hours later on Wednesday 3 May when we face West Ham United at the Etihad Stadium and Guardiola’s focus will quickly switch to the next match of a busy May schedule.
“Wednesday is one of the games in hand and if we win that we will be top of the league,” the boss said after our win at Craven Cottage.
“Still it’s not that situation. The moment we have the same games that will be the reality, now it’s one game in hand and after Tuesday we will have two games in hand but still it will be really close.
“Arsenal have the ability to win all of the games they have left. The mindset is to recover for the guys who played a lot of minutes to be ready for Wednesday. After it’s Leeds again.
“We have to go to Goodison Park [to play Everton] after Real Madrid. The game there will be similar to this. They play to stay in the Premier League, they are a big club historically.
“It is about mentally now about how we have to recover. We have six games left and try to win, every win we will be closer.”
Ahead of our Champions League semi-final first leg with Real Madrid on May we face two home games against West Ham and Leeds.
And Guardiola says we need to do take maximum points as he doesn’t expect Arsenal to drop any more points.
“The next two games will define a lot,” he added. “Two games at home, step-by-step, game-by-game.
“We think that our opponents is not going to drop many points, that is the mentality. Be humble enough to accept every game will be similar especially away.”
