champions

English clubs are guaranteed four places in the Champions League next season but will be hopeful of gaining an extra spot, given to two countries with the strongest performances in this season's European competitions.

One place given to the fifth or sixth-placed teams - depending on how many teams qualify for the Champions League - and one for the winner of the FA Cup.

Many of the teams we would be expecting to be challenging for a Champions League place have underperformed this season.

Aston Villa, in the Champions League this season, have one win in seven but are still only four points off second.

Not since his first season at City in 2016-17, when for a long time it looked possible they would fail to qualify for the Champions League, has Guardiola's team been questioned in the way it is being now.