Arne Slot's 'boring' claim responds perfectly to Pep Guardiola's Man City title admission

Liverpool manager Arne Slot has nary contented playing the "boring" relation if it means the Reds bushed an ailing Manchester City broadside to the Premier League rubric successful his archetypal season

The "boring" attack could beryllium cardinal to Liverpool reclaiming the Premier League rubric from Manchester City this season.

That's aft Reds brag Arne Slot insisted helium is lone focused connected his team's adjacent task contempt City's wobbles successful form. Pep Guardiola admitted the rubric contention could beryllium implicit should his broadside autumn astatine Anfield adjacent Sunday, with Liverpool acceptable to determination 8 points up if they bushed Southampton this weekend.

City's losing streak stretched to 5 connected the bounce aft Guardiola & Co were decimated 4-0 astatine location to Tottenham connected Saturday. And the effect led the City main - who precocious enactment pen to insubstantial connected a caller declaration - to marque immoderate pugnacious admissions successful regards to their chances of keeping the crown.

When asked if a Liverpool triumph successful adjacent week's crunch clash would beryllium decisive successful the rubric race, Guardiola replied: "Yes. In presumption of Liverpool winning, winning, winning, it’s true. I don’t cognize what is going to happen, but the world is present and we person to triumph games.

"People are saying it can’t get worse - but it tin get worse. The exceptional things we person done implicit the past 8 years are not eternal. I said however hard it was to bash the things we person done - and present radical mightiness judge me."

The Catalan manager went connected to concede his broadside are presently "a spot fragile," adding determination are "many details [City] person to fix." But Slot wasn't rather truthful condemning of Liverpool's main rubric rivals and City's existent concern up of this weekend's football.

"I don’t speech astir favourites," said the Dutchman. "It is boring but I conscionable speech astir the adjacent game, which is simply a situation successful itself. In the Premier League the margins are precise small. That is existent each season. I person followed the league and determination was a infinitesimal erstwhile City were 8 points down Arsenal, truthful determination is nary usage successful getting carried distant astatine each astatine this infinitesimal successful time.

"These teams similar City, Arsenal and Chelsea, adjacent [Manchester] United and each the others, are capable to enactment unneurotic a tally of games similar we did. So we are not getting carried distant astatine each and looking astatine it successful presumption of favourites."

Slot's insistence connected fixating upon purely the adjacent imminent obstacle volition lone enamour him further with the Reds instrumentality base. The caller Liverpool main has taken nary clip astatine each to triumph implicit the fans astatine Anfield acknowledgment to his seamless modulation from the Jurgen Klopp era.

That aforesaid wont of taking things 1 measurement astatine a clip has helped Guardiola usher successful a play of unprecedented occurrence astatine City. But helium knows arsenic good arsenic immoderate different conscionable however swiftly specified dynasties tin extremity arsenic Liverpool look to interruption escaped successful the rubric race.

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