Chief Pep Guardiola admitted that the Gow in Southampton means that Manchester City will have to fight until the end of the season for a place in the Champions League.
Just although a victory on the southern coast would have moved the level of the city with the arsenal of second place, a final among the top five is not sure.
Guardiola’s team has a FA final against Crystal Palace to concentrate on the next weekend, after which they have to beat Bournemouth and Fulham to make sure he pursues the Newcastle, Chelsea and Nottingham Forest package.
“With the result today, yes,” he said. “We have three games, a Fa Cup final and two games (league).
“I did not expect differently from a month ago, which is a fight until the end.”
Southampton resisted a wave after wave of attacks with Erling Haaland, back after the last seven games was lost, goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale denied Nathan Akanji, Savinho and Ruben days, and Omar.
It was the first time that City could not defeat the table team since November 2015, a goalless draw with Aston Villa and the first time they had 26 shots without scoring since they lost 1-0 against Southampton five years ago.
The defender of the city Dias criticized Saints’ tactics, saying: “Not only do they try to play, they only wasting the whole game time.
“I don’t feel they want to play or win the game. They are sitting. We try in every way.”
But Guardiola added: “Absolutely not. They can do what they want. For many years we face them in different approaches and decided to play that way.
“Then it belonged to us, it is our duty to break them. This is what you have to do. And we had the chans.”
Pressing if Heter will be sufficiently fit to start at Wembley next Saturday, Guardiola added: “We have a week to think about it. But it was really good for him to play 97 minutes today, we did not expect him to play so much.”
There was a relief around St Mary’s in the final beep, since Southampton finally fought the spectrum of being crowned by the team of joint sausages in the history of the Premier League.
Bottom Rock and already relegated, they fought to ensure their 12th point of an unfortunate season that raised them beyond Derby Regch Tally of 11 in 2007/08.
The official X of Southampton briefly had a shameless message for the Rams, saying: “I’m sorry if we illusions.”
The record has Bone, everything anyone has talked about in the club’s square about November, so Bad Have Saints Leg this term.
“I didn’t know much about the points record,” joked the interim boss Simon Rusk.
“I totally understand how important it was for the club to not have that, but for me it was about focusing on performance.
“We felt good. We knew the size of the task today and for me it was more about the work beginning. We handled it very well.
“We had a game plan, we wanted to build on what we have done well, our priority was to become a more difficult team to win and today we were a little more complete.
“It was a good time when the referee exploded the final beep.”
