Pep Guardiola admitted that winning the FA Cup will not be enough to call the Manchester City season a success on the day his team reached the final, but they were Dethone as champions of the Premier League.
Rico Lewis scored after only 109 seconds against Nottingham Forest in Wembley before Josko Gvardiol extended the city advantage in the second half.
City then uploaded its luck when the forest hit the carpentry three times.
However, Guardiola players saw the semifinal to seal their place in a third consecutive final of the FA Cup and a meeting with Crystal Palace on May 17.
City, fourth in the League, is also in progress to qualify for the Champions League, but when it was good for Guardiola that consolidated a place in the main competition of Europe next season, and won the FA Cup, Woudd Mad, Successuffult “Succesule” campaign times.
“This season does not have a good leg. We are one billion points behind Liverpool, so come on, this season does not have a good leg.
“Look at the Champions League. How many games do we win? One or two? And we always have a machine in that.
“Of course, the damage would be lower (if the city wins the FA Cup) but we cannot confuse that the season has been good if we finish in the top five and qualify for the Champions League. The club has to make the decisions for the next one, for the next one.” “
The city is 21 points behind Liverpool, which were crowned champions on Sunday after its 5-1 Tottenham jump in the league and a point of Chelsea and Forest, which also have a game in hand, in the race for the first five.
City will play four games in the league before they return to Wembley next month to face Palace after his impressive 3-0 victory against Aston Villa on Saturday.
Guardiola added: “Being in another final speaks so well about the volume of players and this club. And we are very happy to be in the final.
“But the season is defined by the Prime Minister’s League and it is consistent and this season that could not happen.
“The most important thing is the qualification for the Champions League and we have to be calm now and recover. We have four finals to play, and then an incredible game against Palace, and we saw yesterday how well they are.”
A slow start forest improved in the second half. Morgan Gibbs-White hit the crossbar, and then the position, before the substitute Taiwo Awoniyi hit the city carpentry for the third time. But they couldn’t find a breakthrough.
“We started very badly, and City started well,” said forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo. “And it made everything difficult.
“In the second half, the impulse changed, we had a couple of Chans, and the game could have a different story.
“We have great things ahead to fight. Today is difficult because we put a lot of effort in the FA Cup.
“But tomorrow, when we wake up, and we see what is ahead of us, it can only bring us more energy for the last games of the season.”
