Man City hell-bent on quadruple glory to eclipse Man Utd’s iconic 1999 treble

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Bernardo Silva insists Manchester City are hell-bent on landing a historic quadruple this season – to leave rivals Manchester United in the shade.

Pep Guardiola's men are desperate to eclipse neighbours United – who won the treble in 1999 – by becoming the first English club to scoop all four trophies available.

City are 10 points clear at the top of the Premier League, in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, the final of the Carabao Cup and have one foot in the Champions League quarter-finals after a 2-0 first-leg away win against Borussia Monchengladbach.

Sir Alex Ferguson's United won the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup in 1999 – and remain the only team to achieve the feat.

But Silva reckons City can go one better by adding the Carabao Cup to make it a clean sweep of all four trophies.

City have won 19 games on the spin and remain unbeaten in their last 26 matches and Silva said: "Of course we're going to try to win the Champions League.

"We know we have good momentum, but this is just the last 16. We're going to try and do well in the second-leg to go through to the quarter-finals.

"Then we have the Premier League, the FA Cup, the Carabao Cup. It's going to be a tough season, but we are going to try to win them all.

"We're happy with the win and we congratulated each other, but now it's on to the next one. Nothing is done yet."

City host West Ham on Saturday and Silva admits David Moyes's in-form side represent a huge threat to his own side's long unbeaten run.

The Portuguese international added: "We have a very tough game in the Premier League and we have to prepare for that well.

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    • "It's 19 games winning in all competitions, so we have got to keep this momentum as long as we can.

    "It's true that we don’t have much time to prepare, but it's been like this since the last six or eight months. We're used to it and we know how tough it is.

    "We have four competitions to play, we need to be 100 per cent in all of them and now we have three days to prepare for West Ham in the Premier League and we're going to get ready."

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