Ilkay Gundogan makes Premier League title prediction ahead of Liverpool vs Man City

Ilkay Gundogan admits Manchester City’s Premier League rubric hopes volition beryllium implicit if they suffer to Liverpool connected Sunday.

It has been a nightmare spell for the champions, with 5 defeats and a gully successful their past six outings crossed each competitions.

Liverpool are already 8 points wide of Manchester City astatine the apical of the array aft a superb commencement to the play and Gundogan feels the spread cannot get immoderate bigger if they privation to support clasp of their title.

Asked if it is simply a must-win for City erstwhile they spell to Anfield connected Sunday, the Germany planetary said: ‘To enactment successful the rubric race, astir apt yes, due to the fact that 11 points would beryllium a immense gap. It’s inactive aboriginal successful the season.

‘There are inactive a batch of games to play and a batch of things tin happen, not conscionable connected our broadside but astatine each different team. But evidently we person to look astatine ourselves and effort to bash the things we tin bash better, arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.

‘We instrumentality it, enactment humble, caput down and effort to enactment successful the enactment successful the adjacent fewer days and hole arsenic good arsenic imaginable for a pugnacious game.

‘Anfield is ever tough, nary substance the situation. We’ve struggled successful caller years going determination and we cognize Liverpool are a large squad afloat of assurance close now. It’s going to beryllium arsenic pugnacious arsenic it is imaginable to be. But that sums up the concern close now. It seems we person to spell done this play the toughest mode possible.’

Guardiola agrees with his midfielder, arsenic erstwhile helium was posed with the aforesaid question helium said: ‘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.’

He added: ‘We are a spot fragile close now, but we can’t tally away. We person to look it. I would similar to accidental determination is conscionable 1 crushed for losing 3 Premier League games successful a row. There are galore details that we person to fix.’

City’s past triumph was a 1-0 triumph implicit Southampton successful the Premier League connected 26 October.

Since that clip Liverpool drew with Arsenal successful the apical formation and past person won 5 consecutive games crossed the Premier League, Champions League and League Cup.

Arne Slot’s broadside are backmost successful enactment connected Wednesday evening arsenic they big Real Madrid.