Captain Kyle Walker has told Manchester City fans that the defending champions will “fight to the end” in this season’s Premier League title race.
The English defender has helped City win the league in each of the last four seasons (and six of the last seven).
But Sunday’s 2-0 defeat to leaders Liverpool was City’s sixth defeat in seven games and left them 11 points off top spot in fifth place.
Walker began a post on social media., external saying “a message to our fans”, adding “we have won titles in the last games of the season and we have made history with a record 100-point campaign, until the last shot.”
“We have proven time and time again that we can rise to the challenge, and we will do it again. I promise you that we will fight until the end.”
City let a 3-0 lead slip away to draw 3-3 at home to Feyenoord in their last Champions League game, taking them to seven games without a win in all competitions.
If they lose at home to Nottingham Forest on Wednesday, the visitors would leapfrog them in the Premier League standings.
“We know that our recent performances have not been up to the standard we expected and we are aware that it has been difficult,” said Walker, 34.
“But we’ve been through these challenges before, together, and we’ll get through this one too.
“It is important that we all stay together as one club, like Manchester City, during this difficult period.
“Your support, whether in good times or difficult times, means the world to us.”
