Manchester City Chairman, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, has claimed he believes they would win the Premier League title after losing 1-0 to Arsenal last year.
City has become the first team to win the title four times in a row.
Pep Guardiola’s side finished two points ahead of Arsenal, who had defeated City in October, before holding the champions to a 0-0 draw at the Etihad Stadium in March.
However, Al Mubarak feels that the loss at the Emirates Stadium acted as a catalyst for Guardiola’s squad.
He told City’s in-house media team: “I’ll tell you something, actually, let me ask myself the question – when did I know we were going to win the league?
“I’ll surprise you with that one – Arsenal away.
“We didn’t play particularly well. We didn’t play particularly bad. I think it was an off-game by our standards. But I don’t think we deserved to lose. If you remember, we lost with that deflected goal in the last minutes.
“I said, ‘this is why we’re going to win the league’. Today, I know how this team is going to react going forward and I know we’re going to win the league.”
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