
City are now strong candidates to extend their participation in European elites, which will extend for 15 consecutive years next season.
The remaining four games on paper are loaded, against Wolves, Southampton, Bournemouth and Fulham.
Guardiola’s side could end a difficult season at the highest level of the FA Cup final if they beat Nottingham Fort in the last four of the tournament.
City have also been a slim list of injuries, including midfielder Nuss in the right-back – a post that “every adapt to it” and hopes to “a slightly better.
Asked whether there would be a successful season of five key players and reach the US Cup final, Nunes replied: “I mean, of course no. We know the club’s standards are much higher.
“We know that these are not the standards we want this club to be, but this is our reality now and we have to take it – and we only have to go like the Premier League cup.
“This is a journey, a rollers and you have to be ready for it and of course they are (team friends),, and now we have a different goal than we had at the beginning of the season.
“They know better than me how important it is to qualify for the Champions League and that’s our goal now. We’re going to the game,” he said.