Pep Guardiola Worried Liverpool Could Finish Manchester City’s Title Challenge

Pep Guardiola has warned Manchester City that if they fail to beat Liverpool at the Etihad on Thursday then their attempt to retain the Premier League is effectively over.

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City can reduce the gap with Liverpool to four points if they win this week, and Guardiola used his post-match press conference after beating Southampton to tell his players that unless they win that game then their title challenge is “almost impossible”. Defeat would restore the gap to 10 points with 17 league games remaining.

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“In the position of Liverpool, we drop points, it’s over, it’s finished,” Guardiola said at St Mary’s this evening. “It would be almost impossible.

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“Of course I think they are going to drop points, but not too many. And if we want to be there as far as possible until the end, we have to win games. We have done last season, and this season as well, except the last four days.”

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Guardiola hopes that the home support at the Etihad Stadium will be decisive. City drew a tight 0-0 at Anfield earlier in the season. “We know what we have to do,” he said. “It’s first against second next Thursday.

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