Manchester City supervisor Pep Guardiola has prompt that it could positively be attainable for his staff or Liverpool to finish a Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League treble this season because it has been carried out previously.
Manchester United 1999 was the primary and nonetheless solely English membership to finish it, seen as certainly one of the final word achievements in English soccer historical past, though Guardiola himself has expertise of it in Spain after main Barcelona to the league, cup and Champions League -titles 2009.
With City at the highest of the Premier League, getting ready to face Southampton within the FA Cup quarter-finals and into the final eight of the Champions League in opposition to Atletico Madrid, consideration is starting to flip to doubtlessly making their very own treble.
For Guardiola, the indisputable fact that it has been carried out earlier than is proof that it may well be carried out once more.
“If United did, another team could do it,” he informed a information convention on Friday.
“Breaking records is because someone has done it. When it happens – I think it will – it’s not easy, but you can do it,” he added.
The metropolis supervisor has additionally prompt that there may be at all times a extra seemingly alternative later within the season, when extra matches have been performed and a treble is nearer.
“In September or October, it’s harder,” he defined. “Two months left, yes it can be done. But it happened once in a lifetime.”
Liverpool are additionally nonetheless within the hunt for a treble – or perhaps a fourfold unparalleled. After lately lifting the Carabao Cup, the Reds at the moment are only one level behind City within the Premier League desk, which guarantees a tense last leg of the title race, and are nonetheless within the FA Cup and Champions League itself.
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