Manchester City are likely to miss out on next season's Champions League qualification due to their recent decline, coach Guardiola said.
City, who are trying to qualify for Europe's top club competition for 15 seasons in a row, have won just one of their last eight Premier League games and sit seventh in the table, 12 points behind leaders Liverpool.
Only Arsenal, between 1998 and 2017, and Manchester United, between 1996 and 2014, have won more qualifiers among English clubs.
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Guardiola's side are four points behind Nottingham Forest, who clinched the last Champions League place with Stoke at Christmas.
“In the past, people laughed. “Quitting the Champions League is not a big achievement,” they said. But I know because it happens with clubs in this country,” Guardiola told reporters ahead of their home game against Everton on Boxing Day.
“They've been dominant for years and haven't qualified for the Champions League for years.
“The one team that has won the Champions League in the last few years is Manchester City. Now we have to venture.
“If we don't qualify, it's because we don't deserve it.” Because we are not prepared yet, Because there were so many problems and we couldn't solve them.”
They host Everton at home on Thursday and face Leicester City on December 29.