Even so, I think Manchester City also needs to maintain its performance considering the season will be very busy. Manchester City can also be overtaken by other teams including Newcastle and Tottenham. So they have to be really careful about those bad possibilities.
With the experience Guardiola has I think Man City will remain strong for the season. They have provided strong evidence in the last season. Although today they have different players, but their quality is better. So I think the reason for the busy schedule won't make Man City bad.
Indeed, there are always many possibilities, this is because there are still quite a lot of matces. There are about twenty-four games still left for the EPL. Indeed at the moment Newcastle and Totenham are obvious threats. Their gap is very slim a one-time mistake would allow Man City to drop the rankings.
New castle and tottenham are indeed the teams closest to Manchester city in terms of point difference. Manchester City has 32 points and New Castle 30 and Tottenham 29 points. It is very clear that Manchester city cannot afford to mess up in the match against Leeds. because if Manchester city loses the match then it is very likely that its ranking position in the standings will be shifted by the nearest club. But I don't think Leeds is a threat to Manchester city. and I'm optimistic that Haaland and all of his colleagues can bring victory to man city in this match.
and if talking outside the Premier league. then Man city on December 23 will compete against Liverpool in the Carabao Cup. I'm curious about the results of the match because in the last few meetings Man City has always lost to Liverpool. like their meeting in week 11 in the premier league. man city lost 1-0 to liverpool.