<p class="title">Manchester City have raised Premier League standards and any team looking to beat them to the title next season will have to target 100 points, manager Pep Guardiola has said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">City were the first team to win the Premier League title with a record 100 points last season and would finish with 98 this season if they win their three remaining games.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Title contenders Liverpool will finish with 97 if they win their two remaining matches, a tally that would have been enough to win the title in any other Premier League season apart from the 2017-18 campaign.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The standards we created last year at Manchester City, people know that you have to be close to 100 (to win the league)," Guardiola told reporters. "Before it was 90.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This standard was last season, we helped Liverpool to achieve it and Liverpool helped us to keep going (this season). It is thanks to Liverpool that we are competing.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Liverpool know that to win you have to make a lot of points. That's what we communicate to anyone."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Guardiola never reached 100 points with former teams Barcelona or Bayern Munich. Last season, City suffered only two defeats to win the league title by 19 points over second-placed Manchester United.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"One hundred points in a season — if you want to compete, you have to do that," Guardiola added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"When Usain Bolt runs the 100 metre race, that's the standard and the others have to achieve it. It's like Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, that's the same."</p>
<p class="title">Manchester City have raised Premier League standards and any team looking to beat them to the title next season will have to target 100 points, manager Pep Guardiola has said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">City were the first team to win the Premier League title with a record 100 points last season and would finish with 98 this season if they win their three remaining games.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Title contenders Liverpool will finish with 97 if they win their two remaining matches, a tally that would have been enough to win the title in any other Premier League season apart from the 2017-18 campaign.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The standards we created last year at Manchester City, people know that you have to be close to 100 (to win the league)," Guardiola told reporters. "Before it was 90.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This standard was last season, we helped Liverpool to achieve it and Liverpool helped us to keep going (this season). It is thanks to Liverpool that we are competing.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Liverpool know that to win you have to make a lot of points. That's what we communicate to anyone."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Guardiola never reached 100 points with former teams Barcelona or Bayern Munich. Last season, City suffered only two defeats to win the league title by 19 points over second-placed Manchester United.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"One hundred points in a season — if you want to compete, you have to do that," Guardiola added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"When Usain Bolt runs the 100 metre race, that's the standard and the others have to achieve it. It's like Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, that's the same."</p>