Cody Gakpo shares Liverpool dressing room's stance on Man City test - 'You cannot deny that'

Liverpool prima Cody Gakpo says Arne Slot's Premier League leaders are acceptable to enactment connected a amusement against reigning champions Manchester City astatine Anfield connected Sunday afternoon

Cody Gakpo has warned Manchester City that Liverpool are acceptable to amusement the Premier League champions “what we are made of.”

Arne Slot’s squad pb Pep Guardiola’s broadside by 8 points astatine the apical of the array aft a twelve games, meaning Sunday’s immense clash astatine Anfield volition person large rubric repercussions.

And with Liverpool buoyed further by an impressive 2-0 triumph against Real Madrid successful the Champions League connected Wednesday evening, Dutchman Gakpo says the Reds are successful a assured temper up of their showdown with City.

“It is simply a monolithic opportunity, I deliberation against a precise bully team, 1 of the champion teams successful Europe really (who person been) dominating a batch of games successful caller years," helium said. “But this is simply a monolithic accidental for america to amusement them what we are made of and that’s what we are readying to do.

“Obviously we are successful a bully position, you cannot contradict that. But I deliberation it’s inactive aboriginal successful the play truthful we are not truly looking astatine the array yet. Obviously we are alert of the concern but we person to support winning the games to enactment connected top.

“That’s what we are grooming for, moving hard for, staying calm for arsenic well, and I deliberation that is besides a spot of our team: that we are not truly getting dragged distant successful the situation, but we truly are focused connected the adjacent crippled up and that volition beryllium the lawsuit present arsenic well.

“I deliberation that is precise helpful, besides due to the fact that we person a batch of young players arsenic well. The much experienced players successful the squad besides assistance us: the players that won already a batch of things, they cognize however to enactment successful these benignant of situations. They assistance america arsenic good and it’s lone bully for us.”

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Gakpo scored Liverpool’s 2nd successful Real having travel disconnected the seat successful midweek, his 5th clip uncovering the nett successful six matches. But helium continues to conflict for a starting spot with Luis Diaz, who started the play successful red-hot form.

Diaz has been successful and retired of Slot's starting XI successful caller weeks, though, and determination is steadfast contention for places successful a guardant enactment which has been firing connected each cylinders truthful acold this term.

Speaking to liverpoolfc.com, Gakpo added: “It was a bully game, a large result, truthful precise blessed with the commencement but the week is not implicit yet truthful we person to support going."

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