Pep’s Premier League Prediction: A Season of Suffering as Fixture Congestion Takes its Toll

Pep Guardiola, manager of Manchester City, believes this season’s Premier League champions could collect fewer points after 38 league games than in previous seasons, which collected around 91 points over three seasons behind

The reason is that the number of games per season has increased. Until the players have to suffer physical and mental fatigue and are unable to maintain their own standards of play throughout the season.

When asked about the number of games each season increasing, Does it lead to the team that won the Premier League this season finishing with fewer points than in previous seasons Pep replied.

“Of course, that’s the reality we face now.”

and he said it after Manchester City lost their first game in the 2024/25 Premier League “If we had five days to prepare and recover (losing at Bournemouth), we might have done better. Or maybe not, who knows.”

Manchester City’s next game will be a trip to Portugal to visit Sporting Lisbon on November 5th.