Kovacic has no excuses

MANCHESTER CITY warhorse Mateo Kovacic believes the side fell into the trap of taking success for granted.

- By Jeremy Cross

But he insists their fall from grace this season has sharpened their focus ahead of Saturday's FA Cup final.

City will meet Crystal Palace at Wembley, with the chance to end a miserable campaign - by their standards - on a high.

Winning some silverware would go some way to making amends for months of failure from the deposed English champions.

They are 18 points behind the Liverpool side who took their Premier League crown and failed to reach the last 16 of the Champions League.

Kovacic, above, believes City won so many trophies under manager Pep Guardiola that it became the norm.

Now the Croatia midfielder wants City to win the FA Cup, then go on to conquer the world at the Club World Cup in the summer.