Pep Guardiola has been impressed with how his Manchester City team have handled their big away games in the first half of the Premier League.
A depleted Blues side got off to a poor start at the beginning of the campaign by following up Community Shield defeat at Wembley with a loss at Tottenham on the opening weekend of the season. However, they have dropped just two more points this season from trips to Leicester, Chelsea, Liverpool, and United to leave them with 10 points from those five encounters.
That has helped to build the platform for an impressive run of results, with City having won their last nine in the league ahead of a game at Brentford to end 2021.
Once they have travelled to Arsenal on New Year's Day, West Ham and Wolves are the only top-ten sides they have left to face away in the second half of the season.
It is knowing the home advantage that City have to come that has made Guardiola happy as much as the consistency shown across the first 19 games of the campaign. They sit six points clear at the top of the league - albeit Liverpool have a game in hand - and would finish with 94 points if they were able to repeat their efforts in the second half of the season.
"Due to Covid I think Tottenham and United have three more games left than us," Guardiola told Sky, "so the important thing is that we finish the leg with 47 points - it’s a lot with incredible games away. We start again against Brentford in three days."
