**Pep Guardiola**gave his thoughts on a 1-1 draw between **Man City**and Chelsea.
Tijjani Reijnders put the hosts into the lead at the Etihad Stadium without needing to go into full gear, and the Citizens seemed set to respond to the goalless stalemate at the **Stadium of Light**against **Sunderland**that had cut them four points adrift of league leaders **Arsenal**going into the new year.
However, the visitors, without their now sacked head coach Enzo Maresca, provided a gut-punch with a late leveller from Enzo Fernandez in injury time. A 3-2 triumph for the Gunners at the Vitality Stadium sent them six points clear of their title contending rivals, and the pressure is piling up again on City. For Guardiola, the focus should be on the quality of the guests and not his men.
"I don't agree [that City lost control]. They scored a goal and that is why you analyse the result. Of course they made a step up and were more intense in the pressing and they had the chances because we lost two balls in the beginning of the second half. But, if you believe that they shifted the momentum, ok. You maybe know better.
"**Chelsea* is a world champions team. It is not academy players there. Top class players. So to have control for 90 minutes against a team is so, so difficult. We missed chances in the second half, four or five actions of two versus one or three versus two. Our talented players tried to finish the game but we could not do that.*
"It is what it is. When you talk about all the stats in all the departments that we can analyse then one is how effective you are in the final third. In general how we defend, how we run, how we play, was extraordinary."