(Reuters) - Pep Guardiola appeared to concede that winning the Premier League title was beyond his Manchester City side after perhaps the most chastening defeat of his managerial career on Sunday. Asked if that meant City's title challenge was over, he told reporters: "By the first one (Chelsea)? The implication was, as Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger also said recently, that the title was now Chelsea's to lose. The way I will try to do it until my last day is the best way possible to achieve what I think is the best way to play," he said. So City fans can expect no change to Guardiola's philosophy that possession is nine-tenths of the footballing law.

Source: The Star January 15, 2017 21:39 UTC