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Pep Guardiola is confident his Manchester City side will secure an unprecedented fourth successive Premier League title this season.<\/p>\n
The champions remain firm favourites to retain their crown despite being held to three consecutive draws at the hands of Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham.<\/p>\n
Yet their current form has prompted some observers to wonder if the team still retain the hunger to triumph again after last season\u2019s treble success.<\/p>\n
Guardiola, however, has no doubt and has sent out a strong message to rivals that there is no complacency within his squad.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy feeling today is we\u2019re going to win the Premier League,\u201d said the City manager at a press conference to preview Wednesday\u2019s game at Aston Villa.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we play at the levels that we showed against Liverpool and Tottenham, we\u2019re going to win it again.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople don\u2019t believe it already after three draws but we feel we\u2019re going to do it again, knowing that it is not easy because no team has done it yet (won four in a row).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe difficulty is there and was last season but, if you ask me today what I\u2019m feeling, we\u2019re going to do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guardiola does not even think his players need to use the sense of injustice from the controversial end to Sunday\u2019s clash with Spurs \u2013 when Erling Haaland was denied the chance to play advantage after being fouled \u2013 to fuel them.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWe never use these kind of situations. Today the motivation is to try and do better.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes decisions help you, sometimes they don\u2019t. I learn that if you want to win something you have to do it much, much better than the opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n
City have been charged with failing to control their players by the Football Association following the stormy end to the 3-3 draw against Spurs.<\/p>\n
A number of the team, notably Haaland, surrounded referee Simon Hooper to protest after he pulled back play to award a free-kick. Haaland had felt play should go on after he had got up following a bad challenge from Emerson Royal to release Jack Grealish through on goal.<\/p>\n
Haaland continued his complaints after the game, going on to criticise Hooper in a social media post, but the Norwegian is not facing any individual action from the FA.<\/p>\n
When asked about this, Guardiola preferred to highlight some of the more magnanimous comments from his players about the incident and defended their general conduct.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWe\u2019ve behaved incredibly this season in our not good results or decisions that are sometimes against us.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen after the game, the comments from my players accepting we can do better is what I want to see from my team and my club.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter that, we\u2019ll accept all the decisions from the Premier League or whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n
City will be without Rodri and Jack Grealish through suspension at Villa Park while Jeremy Doku will be assessed after suffering a knock against Spurs.<\/p>\n