Kyle Walker makes concerning Man City prediction ahead of crunch Liverpool clash

Kyle Walker has warned that Manchester City volition get ‘walked over’ by Liverpool if they don’t amended earlier their crunch Premier League clash adjacent weekend.

City fell to a scarcely believable 4-0 location decision against Tottenham meaning they person present mislaid 5 games successful a enactment for the archetypal clip since 2006.

The concerning decision leaves the defending league champions 5 points down Liverpool, though Arne Slot’s broadside could widen their vantage to 8 points should they bushed Southampton connected Sunday.

Pep Guardiola’s side, however, person small clip to lick their wounds, with a Champions League necktie against Feyenoord connected Tuesday earlier a immense travel to Anfield adjacent Sunday.

Should the Reds triumph against Southampton and adjacent play versus City, they would past boast a commanding 11-point pb implicit Guardiola’s side.

And Walker has insisted his squad indispensable crook their fortunes astir rapidly oregon look different day of misery astatine Anfield.

‘It’s a large crippled to crook it astir and instrumentality 3 points from the squad who beryllium supra you,’ helium told Sky Sports.

‘But we can’t enactment successful a show similar that oregon we’ll get walked over. We person a Champions League crippled to hole for that monolithic crippled connected Sunday and support wrong touching region of Liverpool.’

Asked if the side’s mediocre signifier has seen them suffer confidence, Walker responded: ‘I wouldn’t accidental we’ve mislaid assurance together. I’ve spent 8 years with this group. You suffer assurance arsenic a squad but we person to retrieve what we’ve achieved together.

‘What we’ve achieved successful the past means nothing, it’s history. We person 1 squad supra america doing truly well. We’ll support warring to the extremity arsenic we ever do.

‘The champion mode to crook this circular is connected Tuesday. Hopefully, the mojo comes backmost and we spot the mean City from the past 8 seasons. ‘Your powers don’t conscionable go. We cognize our qualities and weaknesses. You get a win, you get your assurance and we’re backmost to however we utilized to feel.’

Guardiola, meanwhile, accepted that a decision to Liverpool could awesome the extremity of their rubric hopes. ‘Yes. In presumption of Liverpool winning, winning, winning it’s true,’ helium said.

‘I don’t cognize what is going to happen, but the world is present and we person to triumph games. Maybe the anticipation is truthful precocious but we are not acceptable to commencement reasoning astir what is going to hap astatine the extremity of the season.

‘In the end, if we don’t triumph [the league] it’s due to the fact that we don’t merit it. We won it successful the past due to the fact that we deserved it.’

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