Pep Guardiola says Man City legends defied logic to win Premier League

Pep Guardiola called on Manchester City players to be hailed as legends after they came from two goals down in the final 15 minutes of the season to beat Aston Villa and claim a fourth Premier League title in five years.

City went into the day knowing that three points would guarantee them the trophy, but things went awry in the first half when Matty Cash headed in the opening goal past Ederson and got even worse in the second half when former Liverpool star Philippe Coutinho scored a second to stun the Etihad. However, the Blues - helped by three substitutes Oleksandr Zinchenko, Raheem Sterling and Ilkay Gundogan - pulled off an astonishing turnaround to win the game and break Liverpool hearts.

Guardiola a dmitted that his side had felt the pressure of the week and the occasion, with them knowing they were so close to winning the league after so long. The half-time message was simply to get one goal to get themselves back into the contest, and one quickly became two and then three.

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City's manager accepted that their cool heads went out the window in such an emotional game, but having come through the challenge argued that his players deserved to be heralded as some of the best seen in English football.

"Always I had the feeling that the day we saw since we arrived in the stadium that we needed a goal," he said. "After, when we talk about today's big data - numbers numbers - where was today the big data when you play these 90 minutes with this emotion.

"This game is the most difficult to win. This game is the most difficult to close, 10 months is so difficult. It's like the service to win Wimbledon is the most difficult one. We got the first, were