Pellegrini claims Man City have thrown season 'in garbage' since start of 2015

Manchester City football team manager Manuel Pellegrini has claimed that the Premier League defending champions have thrown this season into the garbage in the last three months.

Pellegrini is upset at the way City allowed their season to fall away in the last few weeks with key defeats against Liverpool, Burnley and Crystal Palace since the new year. And with speculations rife that he could be sacked in the summer, Pellegrini has urged his stars to make amends to their fans with another win over Manchester United in Sunday's derby at Old Trafford.

Pellegrini would be fighting to avoid the axe if City finish just fourth having been Chelsea's main challengers for most of the campaign, The Mirror reported.

And, ahead of City's crunch match against Louis van Gaal's resurgent United, Pellegrini confessed that it has not been a good season, definitely not.

The Chilean said that it was not so bad at the turn of the year, when City were at the top of the table, in the Champions League and hadn't yet started in the FA Cup, but he added that in the last three months they have thrown it into the garbage.

Pellegrini said that he thinks always for the fans it is important to finish as near to the top of the table as one can and that's what they must do.

Pellegrini claimed that this is a chance for the players to give something to the fans, adding that at this moment City squad is doing some things correctly so they must try to keep those things. But he insisted that they are also doing some things very badly, that's why they must improve.

City have won just five league games this year while losing four and drawing three, the report added.